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# Read * Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Buckley Dyer ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning The nexus, however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.. In Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study, Dyer demonstrates that slavery and abortion really are historically, philosophically, and legal
| Title | : | Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107680743 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
His work will be indispensable not only for scholars of history, law, and politics, but for anyone who seeks to understand how the basic institutions of civilization are subverted by the effort to rationalize atrocity." - J. Sometimes, the best way to understand one's present situation is to look for analogous cases elsewhere - either in the past or in the present - about which there seems to be clarity." - Francis Beckwith, Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Baylor University"Many writers have noticed similarities between the arguments for slavery and for abortion, but Dyer, an authority on antebellum slavery jurisprudence, breaks entirely new ground. Budziszewski, University of Texas, Austin, author of The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Si
a theologian in Texas said A solid work of scholarship. Pro-life advocates often claim that there is an analogy between slavery and abortion, in that both involve viewing certain human beings as inferior in value and as controllable property. Pro-choice advocates usually wave off this sort of comparison as absurd. This book makes the waving off more difficult, as it builds a careful case for the reasonableness of the analogy, drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of American history an
He received a BA in political science and an MPA from the University of Oklahoma, and an MA and PhD in government from the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and the editor of American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence (2012). Dyer's research has been published in Polity, the Journal of Politics, PS: Political
The nexus, however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.. In Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study, Dyer demonstrates that slavery and abortion really are historically, philosophically, and legally intertwined in America. For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges, an
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