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Federalism, Individual Rights And Judicial Engagement, Kurt T. Lash
Federalism, Individual Rights And Judicial Engagement, Kurt T. Lash
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Contemporary “rights talk” under the American Constitution tends to focus on individual rights or those rights that can be perfected in the case of a single individual. This would include, for example, the rights to free expression, free exercise of religion, sexual autonomy, or the right to equal treatment. Under the broad umbrella of individual-rights talk, theoretical discussions generally involve whether courts ought to recognize a particular individual right or what level of scrutiny (or engagement) ought to apply to judicially identified individual rights.
From the beginning of our history as a nation, however, the concept of legally cognizable rights …