... generation rights human rights second generation rights Sunstein Cass rights movements education rights labor rights environmental rights state constitutions positive rights negative rights government intervention Environmental activists of the 1960s and ’70s routinely insisted that constitutional...

..., America is often believed to be exceptional in its lack of positive rights and its exclusive devotion to negative ones. The book challenges this conventional wisdom about the nature of America's constitutional rights by focusing on three political movements: the campaign for education rights, the movement...

...This chapter examines the campaigns to add education rights to state constitutions, with particular emphasis on how the common school movement was able to establish the states' constitutional duty to provide education. The leaders of the common school movement insisted that government had a moral...