The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights - Hardcover

Arkes, Hadley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691034729 ISBN 13: 9780691034720

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, Hadley Arkes seeks to restore, for a new generation, the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland - a jurisprudence anchored in the understanding of natural rights. The doctrine of natural rights has become controversial in our own time, while Sutherland has been widely maligned and screened from our historical memory. He is remembered today as one of the "four horsemen" who resisted Roosevelt and the New Deal; but we have forgotten his leadership in the cause of votes for women. Both liberal and conservative jurists now deride Sutherland, and yet they both continue to draw upon his writings. Liberals look to Sutherland for a jurisprudence that protects "privacy" against the rule of majorities, on abortion and gay rights. His defense of freedom in the economy will appeal to conservatives.
However, both liberals and conservatives deny the premises of natural rights that provided the ground, and coherence, of Sutherland's teaching. Arkes contends that Sutherland can supply, then, what is missing in both conservative and liberal jurisprudence. He argues that if a new generation can look again, with unclouded eyes, at the writings of Sutherland, both conservatives and liberals can be led back to the moral ground of their jurisprudence. This compelling intellectual biography introduces readers to an urbane man, and a steely judge, who has been made a stranger to them.

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Hadley Arkes is Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691034729
• ISBN 13: 9780691034720
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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