In defence of fundamental rights / William E. Conklin.

Part One : Traditional juridical arguments fundamental rights
Chapter I : Chief Justice Coke's "backward-looking" theory of fundamental rights
Section 1: Chief Justice Coke's theory of fundamental rights
Section 2: Some applications
Section 3: Some problems
Section 4: Would Coke's method lead to the existence of fundamental rights in Canada?
Chapter II: The "contemporary values of society" argument
Section 1: The "shock the conscience" argument
Section 2: The "majority will" argument
Section 3: The "supremacy of the legislature" argument
Chapter III: The "entrenched Bill of Rights" argument
Section 1: The meaning and scope of the terms of an entrenched Bill of Rights
Section 2: The standard of judicial scrutiny
Part Two : The moral-political foundation of fundamental rights
Chapter IV: The principle of "self-regarding" conduct and the utilitarian perspective
Section 1: Mill's principle of "self-regarding" conduct
Section 2: Benthamite utilitarianism and the protection of "self-regarding" conduct
Section 3: Rule of utilitarianism and the protection of "self-regarding" conduct
Section 4: Mill's arguments for the protection of "self-regarding" conduct
Chapter V: John Rawls' theory of fundamental rights
Section 1: Outline of Rawls' theory
Section 2: Some unresolved issues with Rawls' theory
Section 3: Rawls' arguments for the existence of the basic liberties
Chapter VI: An argument in support of fundamental rights
Section 1: The development of individuality
Section 2: The "self" for whom we should have respect
Section 3: What does it mean to respect a person?
Section 4: Respect for persons and the "inner sphere of life"
Section 5: The application of a "respect for persons" argument to "self-regarding" conduct
Section 6: An argument in support of fundamental rights
Part Three : Implications for constitutional analysis
Chapter VII: Some implications for constitutional analysis
Section 1: Which rights are fundamental
Section 2: The level of judicial scrutiny of legislation
Section 3: The scope of fundamental rights
Section 4: Judicial decision-making in constitutional cases.