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Law Review: The uncertain line between public and private morality

By Alliance Alert

Todd E. Pettys, Sodom's Shadow: The Uncertain Line between Public and Private Morality (December 26, 2009). Hastings Law Journal, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1528446 "This Article begins by arguing that the divine accountability thesis illustrates human beings? deeply ingrained tendency to regard their political communities as discrete moral entities, individually deserving of punishment or reward. Drawing from the work of Ronald Dworkin and others, the Article then argues that the divine accountability thesis has an influential secular counterpart, consisting of two widely shared perceptions that, taken together, compose what this Article calls the integration thesis."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).