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Author Fiscus, Ronald Jerry, author.

Title The constitutional logic of affirmative action / Ronald J. Fiscus ; edited by Stephen L. Wasby
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 150 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents The Central Argument: The Meaning of Racial Correlations Given Nonracist Assumptions and Original Positions. Of Molecules and Mobility. Required Assumptions and the Court. Race and Cultural Ethnicity Distinguished -- The Innocent Persons Argument Examined: The Innocent Person Shown to Be Guilty When Claiming Proportional Set-Aside Positions. The Innocent Persons Argument and the Court. The Misplaced Emphasis on Innocence and Blame -- Proportionate and Disproportionate Quotas, The Key Distinction: Formalism. Entitlement. The Supreme Court and the Proportionality Principle. Related Constitutional Arguments -- Scholarly Comment and the Proportionality Principle: Ronald Dworkin and the Rights of Whites -- Applying the Principles: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: In General. Local versus National Standards. Applicant versus Labor Pool. The Complications of Seniority and Repeat Applications in Hiring and Promotions. Seniority, Repeat Applications, and Layoffs: The Stotts Case Revisited
Summary Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action. This is certainly no less true now as when Ronald J. Fiscus's The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action was first published in 1992. The controversy has, perhaps, become more charged over the past few years. With this compelling and rigorously reasoned argument for a constitutional rationale of affirmative action, Fiscus clarifies the moral and legal ramifications of this complex subject and presents an important view in the context of the ongoing debate. Beginning with a distinction drawn between pr
Analysis Employment Positive discrimination Law
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-141) and index
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Subject Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Philosophy
Distributive justice.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- Philosophy
Distributive justice
Rechtsontwikkeling.
Positieve actie.
Overheidsbeleid.
Programmes d'action positive -- Droit -- Etats-Unis.
Justice distributive.
Discrimination dans l'emploi -- Droit -- Etats-Unis.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Wasby, Stephen L., 1937- editor.
LC no. 91033695
ISBN 9780822382263
0822382261
1283062658
9781283062657
0822317702
9780822317708
9786613062659
6613062650