Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Political Philosophy

by Neil MacCormick

Book Overview

This work is a controversial collection of interrelated papers investigating and arguing about issues of concern to lawyers and politicians today. MacCormick combines a scholarly concern with leading thinkers such as John Locke, Lord Stair, Adam Smith and David Hume, John Rawls, Ronald
Dworkin, and Patrick Atiyah, and stringently argued view of questions of political obligation, civil liberty, and legal rights.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198255020
• ISBN13: 9780198255024
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"