Table of contents for Constitutional rights, moral controversy, and the Supreme Court / Michael J. Perry.
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Introduction: a partial theory of judicial review; 1. Human rights: from morality to constitutional law; 2. Constitutionally entrenched human rights, the Supreme Court, and Thayerian deference; 3. Capital punishment; 4. Same-sex unions; 5. Abortion; 6. Thayerian deference revisited; Postscript: religion as a basis of lawmaking? herein of the nonestablishment of religion.
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Constitutional law -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States.
Same-sex marriage -- United States.
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Thayer, James Bradley, -- 1831-1902.