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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822493203321

Autore

Dyer Justin Buckley <1983->

Titolo

Slavery, abortion, and the politics of constitutional meaning / / Justin Buckley Dyer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-32701-6

1-107-33594-9

1-107-33345-8

1-107-33511-6

1-139-41092-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL040000

Disciplina

342.73

Soggetti

Abortion - Political aspects - United States

Abortion - Law and legislation - United States

Slavery - United States

Slavery - Law and legislation - United States

Constitutional law - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The conscience of a nation -- Substance, procedure, and Fourteenth Amendment rights -- Dred Scott, Lochner, and the new abortion liberty -- Constitutional disharmony after Roe -- The politics of abortion history -- Private morality, public reasons -- Personhood and the ethics of life.

Sommario/riassunto

For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate aspects of contemporary abortion politics. As is often the case, many of these popular analogies have been imprecise, underdeveloped and historically simplistic. 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. The nexus, however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.