| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
David Lyons challenges us to confront grave injustices committed in the United States, from the colonists' encroachments on Indian lands to slavery and the legacy of racism. He calls upon legal and political theorists to take these social wrongs seriously in their approaches to moral obligation under law and the justification of civil disobedience. |
| Contents |
The balance of injustice and the War for Independence -- Slavery and the rule of law in early Virginia -- The legal entrenchment of illegality -- Unfinished business : racial junctures in US history and their legacy -- Corrective justice, equal opportunity, and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow -- Normal law, nearly just societies, and other myths of legal theory -- Moral judgment, historical reality, and civil disobedience -- Political responsibility and resistance to civil government -- Courage and political resistance -- Epilog : from politics to philosophy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Justice.
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Justice. |
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Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lyons, David. Confronting injustice. [S.l.] : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780191639555 (OCoLC)824657560 |
| ISBN |
9780191639555 (electronic book) |
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0191639559 (electronic book) |
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019966255X |
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9780199662555 |
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