Enforcement of Morals - Softcover

Devlin, Patrick

 
9780865978058: Enforcement of Morals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0865978050 ISBN 13: 9780865978058
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 2010

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Are morals always relative? Are private actions—among consenting adults— always beyond the law? Or are there some behaviors which so weaken a society that common beliefs about right and wrong must be enforced to protect the common good?

In opposing the decriminalization of private acts of homosexuality in Britain, Patrick Devlin maintained that not only is it reasonable to allow popular morality to influence lawmaking, it is imperative: “ . . . For a society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought.”

Today, as divisive issues such as same-sex marriage and “don’t ask, don’t tell” confront our legislative, judicial, and executive branches, the views expressed by Devlin in The Enforcement of Morals resonate and reverberate anew.

Patrick Devlin (1905–1992) studied history and law at Cambridge University and became a successful lawyer.

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Patrick Devlin (1905-92) studied history and law at Cambridge University and became a successful lawyer. He worked for various government ministries during the Second World War, and in 1948 became the second-youngest person ever appointed a High Court judge. He was knighted later that year. In 1957 the controversial Wolfenden report recommended decriminalisation of private acts of homosexuality, and two sides of the debate about the law's place in the enforcement of morals emerged.

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Verlag
Liberty Fund Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0865978050
ISBN 13 
9780865978058
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
139
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