Coercing Virtue

by Bork, Robert H.

• ISBN13: 9780679310938
• ISBN10: 0679310932
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

This eye-opening dispatch on the culture war traces the dangerous influence of overreaching courts around the world.

Author Biography

Robert H. Bork has been a partner at a major law firm, taught constitutional law at Yale Law School and served as Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the United States as well as a US Court of Appeals judge. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Permanent Revolution	p. 1
The Internationalization of Law	p. 15
Human Rights	p. 22
The Use of Armed Force	p. 38
The United States	p. 52
The First Amendment: Speech and Religion	p. 57
Substantive Due Process	p. 69
Substantive Equal Protection and Homosexuality	p. 73
Radical Feminism	p. 76
Lifestyle Socialism	p. 78
The Illegitimacy of Judicial Activism	p. 79
Possible Remedies for Judicial Activism	p. 81
Canada	p. 85
Freedom of Speech	p. 92
Religion	p. 96
Abortion	p. 98
Homosexuality	p. 103
Substantive Due Process in the Guise of "Fundamental Justice"	p. 106
Israel	p. 111
Interference with the Workings of Government	p. 117
Interference with National Security	p. 123
Homosexuality	p. 125
Religion	p. 126
"The World Is Filled with Law"	p. 127
Speech and Expression	p. 128
"Dignity"	p. 129
Jewish and Democratic Values	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 135
Notes	p. 141
Index	p. 153
About the Author	p. 161
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