Looking forward to justice: Rawlsian civil disobedience and its non-rawlsian lessons

Journal of Political Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 307-330

  Sabl, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035641430     PISSN: 09638016     EISSN: 14679760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9760.00129     Document Type: Article

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29. Singer, "Disobedience as a plea for reconsideration," p. 127.
30. Herbert J. Storing, "The case against civil disobedience," Civil Disobedience in Focus, ed. Bedau, pp. 92-3. Singer mentions the claims of some groups that otherwise illegal drugs are integral to their religious practices.
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