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  • Religion and the Constitution, Volume 1
    Kent Greenawalt
    Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be forced to take part in military service when there is a draft, and should this depe...
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    56,23 €

  • Religion and the Constitution, Volume 2
    Kent Greenawalt
    Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should students in public schools be allowed to organize devotional Bible readings and prayers on school property? Does reciting 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance es...
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    55,84 €

  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?
    Kent Greenawalt
    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America’s leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching abo...
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    57,04 €

  • Fighting Words
    Kent Greenawalt
    Should 'hate speech' be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person’s race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference? Does a campus speech code enhance or degrade democratic values? When the American flag is burned in protest, what rights of free speech are involved? In a lucid and ba...
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    57,32 €

  • Private Consciences and Public Reasons
    Kent Greenawalt
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    90,52 €

  • Law and Objectivity
    Kent Greenawalt
    In recent times, a belief in the objectivity of the law has been undermined by skepticism about legal institutions and ideals of unbiased evaluation, and a conviction that language is necessarily indeterminate. Beginning with a thorough examination of the language of legal standards, the nature of these standards is considered, asking whether law should in fact treat people ’ob...
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    113,78 €

  • Speech, Crime, and the Uses of Lanuage
    Kent Greenawalt
    In this book, Greenawalt explores the three-way relationship between the idea of freedom of speech, the law of crimes, and the many uses of language. ...
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    174,95 €

  • Religious Convictions and Political Choice
    Kent Greenawalt
    How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? Are decisions based on religious convictions compatible with liberal democratic premises? Kent Greenawalt dissects such issues as abortion and animal rights to illustrate secular and religious bases for decision making, concluding that citizens cannot be expected to rel...
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    123,02 €

  • Conflicts of Law and Morality
    Kent Greenawalt
    Drawing from numerous examples of conflicts between law and morality, Greenawalt illustrates in detail the positions and predicaments of potential lawbreakers and lawmakers alike. ...
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    142,14 €