Document Type

Article

Publication Title

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

Abstract

Professor Davis compares human rights jurisprudence in South Africa, Germany and the United States. Observing that the South African and German constitutional commitments to the principle of respect for human dignity were reactions to the atrocities of apartheid and the Holocaust, she urges that the United States Constitution as amended after the Civil War be interpreted consistently with a commitment to the principle of respect for human dignity that was a reaction to, and a repudiation of, chattel slavery.

First Page

1373

Volume

11

Publication Date

2009

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