Natural rights and the right to choose / Hadley Arkes.

Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002.

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Law and ethics -- United States.

Human rights -- United States.

Civil rights -- United States.

Natural law.

Abortion -- United States.

1. Introduction : backing into treason

2. The drift from natural rights

3. On the things the founders knew : and how our judges came to forget them

4. Abortion and the "modest first step"

5. Antijural jurisprudence

6. Prudent warnings and imprudent reactions : "judicial usurpation" and the unraveling of rights

7. Finding home ground : the axioms of the Constitution

8. Spring becomes Fall becomes Spring : a memoir.

Includes index.

0521812186

xiii, 302 p.