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On Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin's title is also his thesis: that a society committed to rights must take them seriously, which means treating them as genuine constraints on what government may do even...
On Taking Rights Seriously
Ronald Dworkin's title is also his thesis: that a society committed to rights must take them seriously, which means treating them as genuine constraints on what government may do even...
On The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law, published in 1961, is the most important work of legal philosophy of the twentieth century, the book that set the terms for...
On The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart's The Concept of Law, published in 1961, is the most important work of legal philosophy of the twentieth century, the book that set the terms for...
On Brown v. Board of Education, the Opinion
Some documents are short because they are meant to be read by everyone, and the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
On Brown v. Board of Education, the Opinion
Some documents are short because they are meant to be read by everyone, and the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
On How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are scholars of how democracies break down, and How Democracies Die, published in 2018, distills their comparative study into an argument both clarifying and alarming.
On How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are scholars of how democracies break down, and How Democracies Die, published in 2018, distills their comparative study into an argument both clarifying and alarming.