Extending rights' reach, constitutions, private law, and judicial power, Jud Mathews
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Extending rights' reach, constitutions, private law, and judicial power, Jud Mathews
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Extending rights' reach
Medium
electronic resource
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bibliographydictionaries
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1020622980
Responsibility statement
Jud Mathews
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
constitutions, private law, and judicial power
Summary
Constitutional rights protect individuals against government overreaching, but that is not all they do. In different ways and to different degrees, constitutional rights also regulate legal relations among private parties in most legal systems. In other words, rights can have not only a vertical effect, within the hierarchical relationship between citizen and state, but also a horizontal one, on the citizen-to-citizen relationships otherwise governed by private law. In every constitutional system with judicially enforceable constitutional rights, courts must make choices about whether, when, and how to give those rights horizontal effect. This text is about how different courts make those choices, and about the consequences that they have.--, Provided by publisher
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