The Price of Politics

Kyle Scott

doi:10.5771/9780739133859

Summary

This book makes the unconventional claim that all of the rights in the U.S. Constitution are unified since they are derived from the same sources. Using the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial decision of Kelo v. City of New London to explore one of the most important constitutional questions of our time, this book reaches across disciplines and subfields to bring forth an innovative understanding of rights. The book derives its understanding of rights from historical sources and philosophical texts which then serve as the basis for the empirically backed claim that rights in U.S. have been sacrificed for partisan gain and that the unbiased protection of rights is the only manner in which a free and equitable government and economy can be sustained. Given the theoretical and practical implications of the property rights debate, understanding it is important for everyone in the U.S. and abroad.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-3384-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-3385-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 161
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Introduction No access
Chapter One: Property Rights and the Common Law Tradition No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter Two: Locke on Property No access Pages 33 - 46
Chapter Three: Pre-Constitution America No access Pages 47 - 66
Chapter Four: The Constitution's View of Property No access Pages 67 - 86
Chapter Five: Examining the Decisions No access Pages 87 - 118
Chapter Six: State Reactions to Kelo v. City of New London No access Pages 119 - 132
Chapter Seven: Implications No access Pages 133 - 144
Conclusion No access Pages 145 - 146
Bibliography No access Pages 147 - 154
Index No access Pages 155 - 161