Human Dignity The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right [Paperback]

An analytical study of human dignity as the humanity of a person, as a constitutional value and a constitutional right.Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. This analytical study of human dignity as both a constitutional value and a constitutional right explores the sources of human dignity as a legal concept, its role in constitutional documents, its content, and its scope.Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. This analytical study of human dignity as both a constitutional value and a constitutional right explores the sources of human dignity as a legal concept, its role in constitutional documents, its content, and its scope.Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific demands of constitutional architecture. This analytical study of human dignity as both a constitutional value and a constitutional right adopts a legal-interpretive perspective. It explores the sources of human dignity as a legal concept, its role in constitutional documents, its content, and its scope. The analysis is augmented by examples from comparative legal experience, including chapters devoted to the role of human dignity in American, Canadian, German, South African, and Israeli constitutional law.Introduction; Part I. Fundamental Concepts and History: 1. The various aspects of human dignity; 2. The intellectual history of the social value of human dignity; 3. Human dignity as a value and as a right in international documents; 4. Human dignity as a value and as a right in constitutions; Part II. Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value: 5. Purposive constitutional interpretal£|