Constructing Basic Liberties

James E. Fleming

A strong and lively defense of substantive due process. From reproductive rights to marriage for same-sex couples, many of our basic liberties owe their protection to landmark Supreme Court decisions that have hinged on the doctrine of substantive...

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Opening Credits

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Dedication

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Quotes

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Chapter 1. A Second Death of Substantive Due Process?

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Part I: Our Practice of Substantive Due Process

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Chapter 2. The Coherence and Structure of Substantive Due Process

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Chapter 3. The Rational Continuum of Ordered Liberty

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Part II: Substantive Due Process Does Not “Effectively Decree the End of All Morals Legislation”

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Chapter 4. Is Substantive Due Process on a Slippery Slope to “the End of All Morals Legislation”?

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Chapter 5. Is Moral Disapproval Enough to Justify Traditional Morals Legislation?

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Part III: Substantive Due Process Does Not Enact a Utopian Economic or Moral Theory

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Chapter 6. The Ghost of Lochner v. New York

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Chapter 7. Does Substantive Due Process Enact Mill’s On Liberty?

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Part IV: Conflicts between Liberty and Equality

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Chapter 8. The Grounds for Protecting Basic Liberties: Liberty Together with Equality

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Chapter 9. Accommodating Gay and Lesbian Rights and Religious Liberty

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Part V: The Future

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Chapter 10. The Future of Substantive Due Process

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Closing Notes

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