Law and Disagreement

Jeremy Waldron

Oxford University Press

1999

344 páginas

11h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780199243037

"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. Often, however, this answer is qualified by adding ' providing that the majority decision does not violate individual rights.

In this book Jeremy Waldron has revisited and thoroughly revised thirteen of his most recent essays"