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• Title:Rights from wrongs : a secular theory of the origins of rights / Alan Dershowitz.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dershowitz, Alan M.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Basic Books, ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: JC571 .D3985 2004
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
  Civil rights.
  
• Description:ix, 261 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0465017134 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : where do rights come from?
  1. What are rights?
  2. Is God the source of rights?
  3. Is nature the source of rights?
  4. Are there other "external" sources of rights?
  5. Do constitutional democracies really need an external theory of rights?
  6. Do we need to invent an external source of rights - even if it does not really exist?
  7. Is natural law a helpful or harmful fiction?
  8. What, then, is the source of rights?
  9. Is there always a right answer?
  10. If rights do not come from God or nature, how are they different from mere preferences?
  11. Does the experiential approach confuse philosophy with sociology?
  12. Can rights produce wrongs?
  13. Is the debate over external sources of rights a liberal-conservative issue?
  14. Can experiential rights check the abuses of majority rule?
  15. Is there a right "to life"?
  16. Is there a right not to be censored by government?
  17. Is there a right to have church and state separated?
  18. Is there a right to emigrate and/or immigrate?
  19. Do animals have rights?
  20. Do dead people have rights in their organs?
  Conclusion : the future of rights.