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Courts Liberalism And Rights [[electronic resource] ] : Gay Law And Politics In The United States and Canada



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Autore: Pierceson Jason Visualizza persona
Titolo: Courts Liberalism And Rights [[electronic resource] ] : Gay Law And Politics In The United States and Canada Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 306.7660973
342.7108/7
342.71087
Soggetto topico: Canada
Courts
Gay rights
Homosexuality
Law and legislation
Liberalism
United States
Homosexuality - Law and legislation - United States
Gay rights - Law and legislation - United States
Homosexuality - Canada
Gay rights - Canada
Constitutional Law - U.S
Law - U.S
Law, Politics & Government
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy; 3 Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics; 4 Toward a Better Liberalism; 5 Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism; 6 Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication; 7 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States:Hawaii and Alaska; 8 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont; 9 Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash; 10 Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism; 11 Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism
12 ConclusionNotes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of court
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ISBN: 1-281-09399-8
9786611093990
1-59213-402-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784273903321
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Serie: Queer Politics Queer Theories