Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Prologue
1. Legal Rights and Political Action
The Myth of Rights
The Politics of Rights
Part One: The Myth of Rights
2. Law as Ideology: An Introduction to the Myth of Rights
Legal Symbols and Political Legitimacy
Legal Values and Political Values
In Search of the Myth of Rights
3. An Ideologist's Eye View of the Myth of Rights
The Constitution
Judges, Courts, and Legal Reasoning
Constitutional Politics
4. The Call of the Law: The Myth of Rights as Political Rhetoric
The Rhetoric of Rights: An Allegory
The Virtue of Realism
The Virtue of Convenience
The Virtue of Morality
5. The Political Resonance of the Myth of Rights
Rights, Rules, and Legal Institutions
Cleavage and Conflict
Part Two: The Politics of Rights
6. Rights as Resources
The Political Status of Legal Rights: The Myth Reconsidered
The Politics of Rights
Litigation and Political Change
7. Constitutional Values and Political Goals
Liberal-Capitalist Directions
Incremental Tempos
The Intrusive Logic of Legal Form
8. The Implementation of Public Policy
Legal Procedures and Judicial Preference
The Compliance Calculation
9. Legal Rights and Political Mobilization
Political Activation
Political Organization
Political Realignment
Part Three: The Strategists of Rights
10. Legal Education and Professional Socialization: The Myth of Rights Revisited
Legal Analysis
The Narrowing Vision
Professional Responsibility
11. The Activist Bar: Programs and Prospects
The Range of Activist Programs
The Prospects of the Activist Bar
Epilogue
12. The Political Relevance of Legal Rights
Mobilization and Pluralism in the American Political Arena
Legal Rights and Political Mobilization
The Practical and Ethical Advantages of Legal Tactics of Mobilization
Postscript
Index