Full Description
Contrasting two Protestant justices who hold distinctively different worldviews, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, this book explores how each came to hold his worldview, how each applied it in Supreme Court rulings, and how it led them to differing outcomes for liberty, equality, and justice. This clash of worldviews between Rehnquist, whose religious and philosophical influences were anchored in the Reformation, and Blackmun, whose Reformation theology was modified by Enlightenment philosophy, provide the context to examine the true nature of justice, liberty, and equality and to consider how such ideals can be maintained in a society with increasingly divergent worldviews.
Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Competing Worldviews in America
Chapter 2: The Theological Background and Worldview of Justice Blackmun
Chapter 3: Chief Justice William H: Rehnquist's Theology, Philosophy, and Worldview
Chapter 4: DeShaney in the Shadow of the Fourteenth Amendment
Chapter 5: Zobrest: Aid to All Students, or Only Those Attending Public Schools?
Chapter 6: Kaiser Aetna and the Conservative vs: Progressive Battle of Property Rights
Chapter 7: Webster: Can a State Prohibit the Public Funding of Abortion?
Chapter 8: Bowers: Is Homosexual Conduct Within the Liberties Protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause?
Chapter 9: Two Differing Worldviews and Their Implications for Liberty, Equality, and Justice
