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Gay Rights and the Constitution: Cases and Materials
James E. Fleming
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Description for Gay Rights and the Constitution: Cases and Materials
Paperback. Num Pages: 463 pages. BIC Classification: LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 186. .
Considerably shorter than other casebooks, this accessible and engaging title focuses on the controversies over constitutional interpretation leading up to the United States Supreme Court's holdings in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015): namely, that the Constitution's commitments to liberty and equal protection encompass rights of same-sex intimacy and marriage. It also takes up emerging conflicts between protection of constitutional rights for gay men and lesbians, on the one hand, and First Amendment claims of freedom of association and religious liberty by persons who oppose protection of such rights, on the other. This book will be suitable ... Read more
Considerably shorter than other casebooks, this accessible and engaging title focuses on the controversies over constitutional interpretation leading up to the United States Supreme Court's holdings in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015): namely, that the Constitution's commitments to liberty and equal protection encompass rights of same-sex intimacy and marriage. It also takes up emerging conflicts between protection of constitutional rights for gay men and lesbians, on the one hand, and First Amendment claims of freedom of association and religious liberty by persons who oppose protection of such rights, on the other. This book will be suitable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
LEG Inc. (dba West Academic Publishing United States
Number of pages
463
Condition
New
Number of Pages
463
Place of Publication
MN, United States
ISBN
9781634602686
SKU
V9781634602686
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