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• 1. The Color Line.
• 2. Pre-contact North America and European Colonization
• 3. Early Virginia
• 4. A Slave System is Established
• 5. Beyond Virginia
• 6. The Founding
• 7. King Cotton
• 8. More Land and Labor
• 9. Sectional Conflicts and the Color Line
• 10. Civil War and Reconstruction
• 11. Redemption and Jim Crow
• 12. Western Indians
• 13. Closing the Door
• 14. An American Empire
• 15. The Great Migration
• 16. Surviving and Defying Jim Crow
• 17. The Second Reconstruction
• 18. The Civil Rights Movement
• 19. Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense and Urban Disorders
• 20. The Wider Civil Rights Movement
• 21. End of the Second Reconstruction
• 22. The Persistence of the Color Line
• 23. Where Do We Go From Here-and How Do We Get There?
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The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it. Focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans, it explores how racial subordination developed in the region, how it has been resisted and opposed, and how it has been sustained through independence, the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and subsequent reforms. The text also considers the position of European immigrants to the US, interrogates relevant moral issues, and identifies persistent problems of public policy, arguing that all four centuries of racial subordination are relevant to understanding contemporary America and some of its most urgent issues. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of race and ethnicity, and other related courses in the humanities and social sciences.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Balance of Injustice and the War for Independence
• 2. Slavery and the Rule of Law in Early Virginia
• 3. The Legal Entrenchment of Illegality
• 4. Unfinished Business: Racial Junctures in US History and Their Legacy
• 5. Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow
• 6. Normal Law, Nearly Just Societies, and Other Myths of Legal Theory
• 7. Moral Judgment, Historical Reality, and Civil Disobedience
• 8. Political Responsibility and Resistance to Civil Government
• 9. Courage and Political Resistance
• 10. Epilog: From Politics to Philosophy
• References
• Index.
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The essays presented in this volume challenge both theorists and citizens to confront grave injustices committed in the United States. David Lyons encourages us to take a fresh look at the beginnings of America, including the colonists' early adoption of race-based slavery even though it was unlawful and why those who rebelled against English oppression were responsible for greater injustices against their Native American neighbors. Confronting injustice requires us to consider how delegates to the 1787 constitutional convention readily embraced increased protections for chattel slavery, why the federal government later abandoned Reconstruction, and why the nation allowed former slave owners to establish a new system of racial oppression called Jim Crow. It requires us to ask why America's official rejection of white supremacy is combined with an unwillingness to address continuing racial stratification. Confronting injustice calls upon political theorists to test their views in the crucible of social history. It challenges those who debate abstractly the idea of an obligation to obey the law to consider the implications of grievous injustices. It calls upon those who assume that their society is now 'reasonably just' to ask when that transformation occurred, despite the fact that children who are black or poor are denied equal opportunity.
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• The balance of injustice and the War for Independence
• Slavery and the rule of law in early Virginia
• The legal entrenchment of illegality
• Unfinished business : racial junctures in US history and their legacy
• Corrective justice, equal opportunity, and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow
• Normal law, nearly just societies, and other myths of legal theory
• Moral judgment, historical reality, and civil disobedience
• Political responsibility and resistance to civil government
• Courage and political resistance
• Epilog : from politics to philosophy.

David Lyons challenges us to confront grave injustices committed in the United States, from the colonists' encroachments on Indian lands to slavery and the legacy of racism. He calls upon legal and political theorists to take these social wrongs seriously in their approaches to moral obligation under law and the justification of civil disobedience.

This volume collects David Lyons's essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. The first essay defends the beneficiary theory of rights. The central set of essays develop new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They also provide a new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled, as utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
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This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They show how Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of rights, and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
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This volume collects David Lyons's essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. The first essay defends the beneficiary theory of rights. The central set of essays develop new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They also provide a new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled, as utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They show how Mill's analysis of moral concepts promises to accommodate the argumentative force of rights, and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
This volume collects David Lyons's essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. The first essay defends the beneficiary theory of rights. The central set of essays develop new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They also provide a new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled, as utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume collects David Lyons's essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. The first essay defends the beneficiary theory of rights. The central set of essays develop new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a utilitarian framework. They also provide a new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled, as utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existence might be justified on utilitarian grounds.
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• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. The internal morality of law
• 2. On formal justice
• 3. Legal formalism and instrumentalism - a pathological study
• 4. Moral aspects of legal theory
• 5. Formal justice and judicial precedent
• 6. Derivability, defensibility and the justification of judicial decisions
• 7. Constitutional interpretation and original meaning
• 8. A preface to constitutional theory
• 9. Basic rights and constitutional interpretation
• 10. Critical analysis and constructive interpretation.
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David Lyons is one of the pre-eminent philosophers of law active in the United States. This volume comprises essays written over a period of twenty years in which Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to morality and justice. The underlying theme of the book is that a system of law has only a tenuous connection with morality and justice. Contrary to those legal theorists who maintain that no matter how bad the law of a community might be, strict conformity to existing law automatically dispenses 'formal' justice, Professor Lyons contends that the law must earn the respect that it demands. Moreover, we cannot, as some would suggest, interpret law in a value-neutral manner. Rather courts should interpret statutes, judicial precedents, and constitutional provisions in terms of values that would justify those laws. In this way officials can promote the justifiability of what they do to people in the name of law, and can help the law live up to its moral pretensions.
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• Introduction: The need for re-examination. Part 1 Bentham's utilitarianism: a differential interpretation
• the consistency of the dual standard
• the convergence of interests
• the development of Bentham's position. Part 2 Bentham on the nature of law: the imperational theory of law
• motivation and control.
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Although known as the founder of modern utilitarianism and the source of analytical jurisprudence, Bentham today is infrequently read but often caricatured. The present book, based on a study of Bentham's most important works, offers a reinterpretation of Bentham's main philosophical doctrines, his principle of utility and his analysis of law. The evidence indicates that Bentham was no 'universalist' in morals, but embraced a dual standard - in politics the community's interest, in 'private ethics' the agent's interest - which may in turn be based on the idea that government should serve the interests of those who are 'governed'. The argument challenges many common assumptions about Bentham's view of human nature and of political institutions. A new reading is also given to his theory of law, which suggests Bentham's insight, originality, and continued interest for philosophers and legal theorists. In the Interest of the Governed was first published in 1973. This revised edition contains a new Preface, a revised Bibliography, and two new Indexes, one of Names and one of Subjects, which together replace the original index.
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• Introduction: The need for re-examination. Part 1 Bentham's utilitarianism: a differential interpretation
• the consistency of the dual standard
• the convergence of interests
• the development of Bentham's position. Part 2 Bentham on the nature of law: the imperational theory of law
• motivation and control.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Although known as the founder of modern utilitarianism and the source of analytical jurisprudence, Bentham today is infrequently read but often caricatured. The present book, based on a study of Bentham's most important works, offers a reinterpretation of Bentham's main philosophical doctrines, his principle of utility and his analysis of law. The evidence indicates that Bentham was no 'universalist' in morals, but embraced a dual standard - in politics the community's interest, in 'private ethics' the agent's interest - which may in turn be based on the idea that government should serve the interests of those who are 'governed'. The argument challenges many common assumptions about Bentham's view of human nature and of political institutions. A new reading is also given to his theory of law, which suggests Bentham's insight, originality, and continued interest for philosophers and legal theorists. In the Interest of the Governed was first published in 1973. This revised edition contains a new Preface, a revised Bibliography, and two new Indexes, one of Names and one of Subjects, which together replace the original index.
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• Introduction: The need for re-examination. Part 1 Bentham's utilitarianism: a differential interpretation
• the consistency of the dual standard
• the convergence of interests
• the development of Bentham's position. Part 2 Bentham on the nature of law: the imperational theory of law
• motivation and control.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Although known as the founder of modern utilitarianism and the source of analytical jurisprudence, Bentham today is infrequently read but often caricatured. The present book, based on a study of Bentham's most important works, offers a reinterpretation of Bentham's main philosophical doctrines, his principle of utility and his analysis of law. The evidence indicates that Bentham was no 'universalist' in morals, but embraced a dual standard - in politics the community's interest, in 'private ethics' the agent's interest - which may in turn be based on the idea that government should serve the interests of those who are 'governed'. The argument challenges many common assumptions about Bentham's view of human nature and of political institutions. A new reading is also given to his theory of law, which suggests Bentham's insight, originality, and continued interest for philosophers and legal theorists. In the Interest of the Governed was first published in 1973. This revised edition contains a new Preface, a revised Bibliography, and two new Indexes, one of Names and one of Subjects, which together replace the original index.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Moral judgment and the law
• 2. Law as social fact
• 3. Morality in law
• 4. Welfare, justice, and distribution
• 5. Legal coercion and moral principle
• 6. Liberty and law
• 7. The rule of law
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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An introduction to the philosophy of law, which offers a modern and critical appraisal of all the main issues and problems. This has become a very active area in the last ten years, and one on which philosophers, legal practitioners and theorists and social scientists have tended to converge. The more abstract questions about the nature of law and its relationship to social norms and moral standards are now seen to be directly relevant to more practical and indeed pressing questions about the justification of punishment, civil disobedience, the enforcement of morality, and problems about justice, rights, welfare, and freedom. David Lyons is a shrewd, clear and systematic guide through this tangled area. The book presupposes no formal training in law or philosophy and is intended to serve as a textbook in a range of introductory courses.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Moral judgment and the law
• 2. Law as social fact
• 3. Morality in law
• 4. Welfare, justice, and distribution
• 5. Legal coercion and moral principle
• 6. Liberty and law
• 7. The rule of law
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

An introduction to the philosophy of law, which offers a modern and critical appraisal of all the main issues and problems. This has become a very active area in the last ten years, and one on which philosophers, legal practitioners and theorists and social scientists have tended to converge. The more abstract questions about the nature of law and its relationship to social norms and moral standards are now seen to be directly relevant to more practical and indeed pressing questions about the justification of punishment, civil disobedience, the enforcement of morality, and problems about justice, rights, welfare, and freedom. David Lyons is a shrewd, clear and systematic guide through this tangled area. The book presupposes no formal training in law or philosophy and is intended to serve as a textbook in a range of introductory courses.
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