Why Blacks, women, and Jews are not mentioned in the Constitution, and other unorthodox views

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ISBN: 0844736937
ISBN: 9780844736938
Physical Description: print
xi, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by arrangement with National Book Network, ©1990.

General Note:	"Published for American Enterprise Institute."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-175) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Principles and politics -- an introduction / Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. -- Why Blacks, women, and Jews are not mentioned in the Constitution -- Of men and angels: a search for morality in the Constitution -- How the Constitution promotes progress -- What Americans know about their Constitution -- Is there an American right of revolution? -- Rights versus duties -- Are human rights the moral foundation of American foreign policy? -- Three human rights are enough -- A reading of Locke's chapter "Of property" -- Locke's state of nature in political society -- Locke and the law of the sea -- Common sense versus "The common heritage" -- Prescription for suppressing a dreadful thought -- Learning to earn a living and learning to live a life -- The future of liberal education.