Law and Disagreement

by Jeremy Waldron

Book Overview

When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious toleration?

The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made democratically, by majority voting among the people or their representatives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198262132
• ISBN13: 9780198262138
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"