THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS
Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in Americanhistory (the late eighteenth century, the Civil War and the 1950sand 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions tocontemporary social and political crises. His innovativeapproach sees rights language as grounded more in oppositionto concrete social and political practices than in the universa-listic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. Thisstudy demonstrates the potency of the language of rightsthroughout American history and looks for the ®rst time at theimpact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and theSoviet Union) on American conceptions of rights.
The AmericanLanguage of Rights
is a major contribution to contemporarypolitical theory, of interest to scholars and students in politicsand government, constitutional law, and American history.
richard a. primus
studied political theory at Harvard andOxford and law at Yale.
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