Understanding competing worldviews in America -- The theological background and worldview of Justice Harry Blackmun -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's theology, philosophy, and worldview -- DeShaney in the shadow of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Zobrest : aid to all students or only those attending public schools? -- Kaiser Aetna and the conservative vs. progressive battle of property rights -- Webster : can a state prohibit the public funding of abortion? -- Bowers : is homosexual conduct within the liberties protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause? -- Two differing worldviews and their implications for liberty, equality, and justice.
Summary:
"Contrasting two Protestant justices who hold distinctively different worldviews, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, this book explores how each came to hold his worldview, how each applied it in Supreme Court rulings, and how it led them to differing outcomes for liberty, equality, and justice"-- Provided by the publisher.
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