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Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the Constitution
Author(s): Judith Blau (Author), Alberto Moncada (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
- Publication Date: 9 Mar. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742545598
- ISBN-13: 9780742545595
Book Description
In this volume, the authors compare the constitutional provisions of different nation-states and summarize some of the relevant United Nations human rights declarations and treaties. To encourage US citizens to think critically about their Constitution in light of the constitutions of other states, the authors present a draft revision of the U.S. Constitution. Of course, revision of the Constitution must be a comprehensively a democratic process, and the authors wish to show how this process might begin.
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About the Author
Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, and is chair of the interdisciplinary program in Social and Economic Justice. While she has worked in various specialties within sociology, her interests now focus on how to expand sociological queries about human rights, justice, cultural diversity, and equity. She is president of the U.S. Chapter of Sociologists without Borders, and co-editor (with Alberto Moncada) of Without Borders, and former editor of Social Forces.
Alberto Moncada is President of Sociologists without Borders. He has been professor at the University of Madrid, Stanford, and elsewhere, and has been a consultant for UNESCO, the European Council, and the Organization of American States. His many books (in Spanish) cover a great variety of areas: Latinos in the US, media, education, culture and the arts, sexuality, Spanish politics, and religion.
