The Reconfiguration of the Territories of Rights

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We have lived through the reconfiguration of the territorial extent of all kinds of remedies for perceived diminution of rights. The people in the state legislators and their governors are doing it because they, of course, embraced the notion of a legitimacy crisis. Their inincorporation then strengthens, rather than weakens, what we're calling neo liberalism. This kind of incorporation appeals to people's notion of themselves as beings who bear culture with them.

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