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Program

Research Programs: Residential College Teacher Fellowships, 1976-1981

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 5/31/1979

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)

Principles of Liberal-Democratic Thought, Natural Law, and Contemporary Philosophical Arguments About Legal Rights...

FAIN: FR-10332-78

Ira L. Strauber
Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA 50112-2227)

To conduct an historical and then philosophical investigation into the nature and operation of legal rights in American constitutional democracy; to explore the relationship between legal rights, political rights and political power within the context of liberal-democratic thought (the social contract argument; natural law) and the exigencies of contemporary legal and political process (NB: freedom of speech).