Law and disagreement
Jeremy Waldron (Author)
When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues such as affirmative action, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent, and the limits of religious toleration? The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made democratically, by majority voting among the people or their representatives. Often, however, this answer is qualified by adding 'providing that the majority decision does not violate individual rights.'
Print Book, English, 1999
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1999
BOOK
ix, 332 pages ; 24 cm
9780198262138, 9780199243037, 0198262132, 0199243034
40567345
A jurisprudence of legislation. Legislatures in legal philosophy ; Legislation by assembly ; Text and polyphony ; Legislation, authority, and voting ; Legislators' intentions and unintentional legislation
Disagreement in principle. Rawls's Political liberalism ; The irrelevance of moral objectivity ; The circumstances of integrity
Rights and judicial review. Between rights and bills of rights ; Participation : the right of rights ; Disagreement and precommitment ; The constitutional conception of democracy
New Zealand author
Reprinted 2004