TY - BOOK AU - Bhagwat,Ashutosh A. TI - The myth of rights: the purposes and limits of constitutional rights SN - 0195377788 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - KF4749 .B48 2010 U1 - 342.7308/5 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Civil rights KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The myth of rights : of aliens, corporations, and guns -- The nature of rights : a theoretical and historical overview -- Constitutional rights and the structure of government -- How constitutional rights limit government power -- Free speech and self-governance -- The religion clauses : reconciling accommodation and separation -- Property rights and economic regulation -- Racial discrimination and affirmative action : the meaning of equal protection -- Discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and other characteristics : translating equal protection -- The nontextual constitution : privacy and other unenumerated rights -- Structural rights and the War on Terror ER -