A Culture of Rights Lacey Haakonssen Paperback Cambridge University Press

A Culture of RightsThe Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law 1791 and 1991\nAuthor(s): Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521446532, 978-0521446532\nSynopsis\nWritten by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions. Based on the current state of scholarly understanding and intended to provide a fresh sense of orientation into the complexities of the separate topics covered, the studies focus on two distinct 'moments' in the American experience: the eighteenth-century period of founding that produced the Bill of Rights as an element in the Constitutional settlement, and the contemporary moment, marked.