ISBN: 0765804735

Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to face questions about our pub… Mehr…

Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to face questions about our public identity, our standards for public policy, and our sense of history. Ron Christenson explores how political trials, especially those within the rule of law, engage society's conflicting values and loyalties. He examines numerous political trials throughout history, bringing into question basic foundations of law, politics, and society. Christenson classifies political trials according to the issues they generate in the political sphere: partisan trials are spurious legal proceedings but politically expedient; trials of corruption and insanity raise questions of public and personal responsibility; trials of dissenters involve problems of conscience; trials of nationalists highlight the nature of representation and the relationship of the part to the whole; and trials of regimes engage the most fundamental concept of both law and politics--legitimacy. Political Trials brings these considerations to bear on some of the best-known cases in history, including the Gunpowder Plot; the Spanish Inquisition; the Dreyfus affair; the Nuremburg trials; trials of dissenters such as Socrates, Thomas More, Roger Williams, and the Berrigan brothers; and trials of nationalists such as Joan of Arc, Gandhi, Knut Hamsun, and the Irish republicans. Since the first edition appeared, a number of notable politica criminal law,education and reference,international and world politics,jurisprudence,law,legal theory and systems,philosophy,political science,politics and government,politics and social sciences Philosophy, Routledge<

1999, ISBN: 9780765804730

Softcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can … Mehr…

Softcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less., [PU: Routledge]<

1999, ISBN: 9780765804730

Transaction Publishers, 1999-01-28. Paperback. LikeNew. 9.0300 inches 6.0500 inches., Transaction Publishers, 1999-01-28

1999, ISBN: 9780765804730

Transaction Publishers, 1999-01-28. Paperback. Good., Transaction Publishers, 1999-01-28