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If Deliberative Democracy Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Emily Hauptmann
If Deliberative Democracy Is The Solution, What Is The Problem?, Emily Hauptmann
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented March 18, 1999 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.
Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette
Gun Control, Hugh Lafollette
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented October 22, 1998 for the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society.
The Religious Right In Court: The Decision Making Of Christian Evangelicals In State Supreme Courts, Donald R. Songer, Susan J. Tabrizi
The Religious Right In Court: The Decision Making Of Christian Evangelicals In State Supreme Courts, Donald R. Songer, Susan J. Tabrizi
Faculty Publications
Much has been written recently about the emergence of evangelicals and others often labeled the "new Religious Right" in American politics. However, little attention has been paid to whether officials who have been socialized in the denominations characterized as being part of this Religious Right actually behave differently in office from those brought up in other religious traditions. The present study begins such an inquiry by examining differences in the voting behavior of state supreme court justices in three issue areas. Evangelical justices were found to be significantly more conservative than mainline Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish justices in death penalty, …
Speaking Truth To Powerlessness, Howard Lesnick
Speaking Truth To Powerlessness, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
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Should A Christian Lawyer Sign Up For Simon's Practice Of Justice?, Thomas L. Shaffer
Should A Christian Lawyer Sign Up For Simon's Practice Of Justice?, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
In The Practice of Justice, Professor William H. Simon describes justice in a way that differs from the way the Bible describes justice. The big difference is not so much what justice requires (although there is some difference there) as (i) how people decide what justice requires, and (ii) who the "people" are who decide what justice requires. Some of us Christians claim to understand "justice" as the Bible understands it. It may make a difference that, for biblical people, "justice" is righteousness, and righteousness, the Torah teaches, and Rabbi Hillel teaches, and Rabbi Jesus teaches, is practice following upon …