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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

This book is about why debt relief was a salient political issue for so long and why it then ceased to be one. It is also about the United States' constitutional tradition, and the contradictions it embodies. Tracing the geographic, sectoral, and racial politics of debt relief over time--and examining the roles that social movements, interest groups, and constitutional interpretation played--Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston show how the politics of debt relief has interacted with race and other social hierarchies that have conditioned both state action and debtors' opportunities to mobilize. Although the twentieth and early twenty-first century saw the erosion of debt protection, history reminds us that Americans once mounted large-scale grassroots campaigns for debt relief. These activists made radical claims about economic justice, and they reshaped constitutional law and the American state"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832376

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9780226832371

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

By: Emily Zackin

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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 that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.

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Princeton University Press

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1400846277

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9781400846276

Bioethics and the New Embryology

Springboards for Debate

By: Scott F. Gilbert,Anna L. Tyler,Emily Zackin

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Bioethics and the New Embryology

Springboards for Debate

By: Scott F. Gilbert,Anna L. Tyler,Emily Zackin

This brief textbook of human development covers the events of fertilization, gestation, and sex determination, followed by descriptions of the science of cloning, stem cells, and genome sequencing. The chapter covering the science is juxtaposed with a chapter discussing ethical questions that arise, such as when does life begin, should assisted reproductive technologies be regulated, and should parents be allowed to choose their child's sex"--Provided by publisher.

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316

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Macmillan

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0716773457

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9780716773450

Losing Twice

Harms of Indifference in the Supreme Court

By: Emily M. Calhoun

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Losing Twice

Harms of Indifference in the Supreme Court

By: Emily M. Calhoun

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law. Here, Emily Calhoun draws upon conflict resolution theory, political theory, and Habermasian discourse theory to argue that in such cases, the Court must work harder to avoid inflicting unnecessary harm on Constitutional losers.

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Oxford University Press

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0195399749

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9780195399745

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

By: Emily Zackin

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Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

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Princeton University Press

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069115578X

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9780691155784

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

By: Emily Zackin,Chloe N. Thurston

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging readings of the Constitution that exalted property rights at the expense of the vulnerable. Their appeals shaped the country’s periodic experiments with state debt relief and federal bankruptcy law, constituting a pre-industrial safety net. Yet, the twentieth century saw the erosion of debtor politics and the eventual retrenchment of bankruptcy protections. The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.

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0226832368

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9780226832364

Bioethics and the New Embryology

Springboards for Debate

By: Scott F. Gilbert,Anna L. Tyler,Emily Zackin

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Springboards for Debate

By: Scott F. Gilbert,Anna L. Tyler,Emily Zackin

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The Political Development of American Debt Relief

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

Bioethics and the New Embryology

Bioethics and the New Embryology

Losing Twice

Losing Twice

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

The Political Development of American Debt Relief

Bioethics and the New Embryology

Bioethics and the New Embryology

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