In Pardons, Kathleen Dean Moore addresses a host of crucial questions surrounding acts of clemency, including what justifies pardoning power, who should be pardoned, and the definition of an unforgivable crime. Illustrating her arguments with rich and fascinating historical examples--some scandalous or funny, others inspiring or tragic--Moore examines the philosophy of pardons from King James II's practice of selling pardons for two shillings, through the debates of the Founding Fathers over pardoning power, to the record low number of pardons during recent U. S. administrations. Carefully analyzing the moral justification of clemency, Moore focuses on presidential pardons, revealing that over and over again--after the Civil War, after Prohibition, after the Vietnam War, and after Watergate--controversies about pardons have arisen at times when circumstances have prevented people from thinking dispassionately about them. Her groundbreaking study concludes with recommendations for the reform of presidential pardoning practices.
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"Extraordinarily engaging reading! Once I got started, I couldn't put it down...Not only is there nothing like it in modern philosophical literature--despite a great volume of material on punishment--but it is of very high philosophical quality."--Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin
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Kathleen Dean Moore is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University.
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As long as people have been thinking about punishment, they have been thinking about the remission of punishment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legalistic retributivism, moralistic retributivist, legalistic retributivist, retributivist measure, pardoning practices, retributivist grounds, pardoning executive, presidential pardoning power, retributivist principles, new retributivism, pardon decision, commensurate deserts, retributivist theory, retributivist justification, pardon attorney, comparative injustice, pardon proclamation, retributivist view, clemency power, pardon power, pardon applications, retributive theory, justifying aim, moral desert, retributive principles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Doing Justice, Supreme Court, President Ford, Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Clemency Board, New York, Alexander Hamilton, Justice Holmes, The Metaphysical Elements of Justice, President Reagan, Civil War, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, President Taft, President William Taft, Roswell Gilbert, The Federalist New!
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As long as people have been thinking about punishment, they have been thinking about the remission of punishment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legalistic retributivism, moralistic retributivist, legalistic retributivist, retributivist measure, pardoning practices, retributivist grounds, pardoning executive, presidential pardoning power, retributivist principles, new retributivism, pardon decision, commensurate deserts, retributivist theory, retributivist justification, pardon attorney, comparative injustice, pardon proclamation, retributivist view, clemency power, pardon power, pardon applications, retributive theory, justifying aim, moral desert, retributive principles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Doing Justice, Supreme Court, President Ford, Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Clemency Board, New York, Alexander Hamilton, Justice Holmes, The Metaphysical Elements of Justice, President Reagan, Civil War, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, President Taft, President William Taft, Roswell Gilbert, The Federalist New!
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- Metaphysical Elements of Justice by Immanuel Kant on 6 pages
- The Summa Theologica (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 19 & 20) by Thomas Aquinas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy) by Jeremy Bentham on page 35, and Back Matter
- Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment by Edward H. Madden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment by Gertrude Ezorsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice (Kroc Inst Religion Conflict & Peacebldg) by Daniel Philpott on page 94, page 104, and page 111
- Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution by Austin Sarat in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe by James Q. Whitman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition by Austin Sarat in Back Matter
- Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Andrew Majeske in Back Matter
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