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Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health


ISBN13: 9781009096157
Published: June 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £19.99



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Constitutional law has helped make Americans unhealthy. Drawing from law, history, political theory, and public health research, Constitutional Contagion explores the history of public health laws, the nature of liberty and individual rights, and the forces that make a nation more or less vulnerable to contagion. In this groundbreaking work, Wendy Parmet documents how the Supreme Court departed from past practice to stymie efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrates how pre-pandemic court decisions helped to shatter social contracts, weaken democracy, and perpetuate the inequities that made the United States especially vulnerable when COVID-19 struck. Looking at judicial decisions from an earlier era, Parmet argues that the Constitution does not compel the stark individualism and disregard of public health that is evident in contemporary constitutional law decisions. Parmet shows us why, if we are to be a healthy nation, constitutional law must change.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , USA
Contents:
Introduction: Disaster Awaits
1. A New Approach
2. Salus Populi Suprema Lex
3. The End of Salus Populi
4. COVID Comes to Court
5. The Mandate Wars
6. An Asymmetry of Rights
7. An Unequal Pandemic
8. The Infodemic
9. An Unhealthy Polity
Conclusion: 'A Republic, If You Can Keep It'