New American Social Compact: Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century

By Jane A. Grant

Book Overview

The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact-the rights and obligations of citizenship-as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new social compact in America. Grant proposes a new social compact that would honor the expansion of civil, political, and social rights in America and would integrate these rights within a new civic procedural ethos, clarifying our obligations to each other, future generations, other nations, and other species.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739119761
• ISBN13: 9780739119761
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"