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Description
The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture. This book explores such issues by using classical standards of morality as a starting point for understanding them. Drawing on works of literature and philosophy, and on U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the book examines the intimate relationship between human nature and constitutional law.
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
978-0-8131-2533-6
eISBN
978-0-8131-7327-6 (pdf version)
eISBN
978-0-8131-3916-6 (epub version)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813125336.001.0001
Keywords
Law, Government, Assisted suicide, Euthanasia, Abortion, Capital punishment, Torture, Human nature, Constitutional law, U.S. Supreme Court
Disciplines
American Politics | Political Theory
Recommended Citation
Anastaplo, George, "Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution" (2009). American Politics. 42.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_political_science_american_politics/42
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