Michael J. Perry, a prolific legal theorist who teaches at Emory Law School, is well known in the academy and to the readers of Commonweal. His latest book, The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy, is characteristically wide-ranging and forceful—nothing less than an effort to define and defend the moral convictions that should guide legal practices in liberal democratic r (...)
September 24, 2010
Books
Religious Foundations?
The Political Morality of Liberal DemocracyMichael J. PerryCambridge University Press, $80, 224 pp.
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