LEADER 04177nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910345151303321 005 20240813013629.0 010 $a9786612935497 010 $a1-282-08744-4 010 $a1-282-93549-6 010 $a9786612087448 010 $a1-4008-2810-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828104 035 $a(CKB)2670000000057518 035 $a(EBL)445453 035 $a(OCoLC)368315169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136656 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136656 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10084348 035 $a(PQKB)11099891 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36534 035 $a(DE-B1597)446644 035 $a(OCoLC)979631948 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828104 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284019 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968543 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208744 035 $a(OCoLC)1027150177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968543 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000057518 100 $a20061120d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocratic rights $ethe substance of self-government /$fCorey Brettschneider 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11970-8 311 $a0-691-14930-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-168) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1. The Value Theory of Democracy --$tCHAPTER 2. Paradigmatic Democratic Rights and Citizens as Addressees of Law --$tCHAPTER 3. Democratic Contractualism: A Framework for Justifiable Coercion --$tCHAPTER 4. Public Justification and the Right to Privacy --$tCHAPTER 5. The Rights of the Punished --$tCHAPTER 6. Private Property and the Right to Welfare --$tCHAPTER 7. Judicial Review: Balancing Democratic Rights and Procedures --$tCONCLUSION. Democratic Rights and Contemporary Politics --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWhen the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution. But did the court act undemocratically by overriding the rights of the majority of voters in Texas? Scholars often point to such cases as exposing a fundamental tension between the democratic principle of majority rule and the liberal concern to protect individual rights. Democratic Rights challenges this view by showing that, in fact, democracy demands many of these rights. Corey Brettschneider argues that ideal democracy is comprised of three core values--political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity--with both procedural and substantive implications. These values entitle citizens not only to procedural rights of participation (e.g., electing representatives) but also to substantive rights that a "pure procedural" democracy might not protect. What are often seen as distinctly liberal substantive rights to privacy, property, and welfare can, then, be understood within what Brettschneider terms a "value theory of democracy." Drawing on the work of John Rawls and deliberative democrats such as Jürgen Habermas, he demonstrates that such rights are essential components of--rather than constraints on--an ideal democracy. Thus, while defenders of the democratic ideal rightly seek the power of all to participate, they should also demand the rights that are the substance of self-government. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aCivil rights 606 $aCitizenship 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aCivil rights. 615 0$aCitizenship. 676 $a321.8 700 $aBrettschneider$b Corey$01764657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345151303321 996 $aDemocratic rights$94206024 997 $aUNINA