Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

by Emily Zackin

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069115578X
• ISBN13: 9780691155784
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"