Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xix, 498 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Originally presented as the Jefferson memorial lectures at Berkeley."

Subject

1. Equality before the law > United States > History
2. Civil rights > United States > History
3. Constitutional history > United States
4. 15.85 history of America
5. Civil rights
6. Constitutional history
7. Equality before the law
8. Gelijkheid
9. Gelijkheidsbeginsel
10. Égalité devant la loi > États-Unis > Histoire
11. Égalité > États-Unis
12. Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire
13. Droits civils et politiques > États-Unis
14. Égalité devant la loi > Etats-Unis
15. United States
16. États-Unis > Histoire constitutionnelle

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. The Idea of Equality in a Hostile World -- In the American Environment: Emergence of a Self-Evident Truth -- The Articulation of Equality in the New Republic -- A Multiplicity of Sects -- Religion and Individual Conscience -- Equal Rights, Unequal Conditions, and the Emergence of Equality of Opportunity -- Race and Political Community -- Social and Constitutional Foundations of Racial Separatism -- Corporate Power and Social Pluralism -- Individual Equality and Ethnic Identity -- Reconstructing the Constitutional Environment -- Sex and Gender: Where Equality Is Not Identity -- A Fissiparous Revolution -- Equality and Justice.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Originally presented as the Jefferson memorial lectures at Berkeley"--T.p. vero.
2. "A Centennial book"--Prelim.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.