Welfare and the ConstitutionPrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 192 páginas Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people. He shows that James Madison was right in saying that the "real welfare" of the people must be the "supreme object" of constitutional government. With conceptual rigor set in fluid prose, Barber opposes the shared view of America's Right and Left: that the federal constitutional duties of public officials are limited to respecting negative liberties and maintaining processes of democratic choice. |
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... America: A Hypothesis What Constitutes Well-Being? CHAPTER SIX Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends? Welfare and Power: Structure and Context of the Question ix xi 1 5 8 12 23 23 36 42 42 44 53 55 65 65 68 71 77 79 86 92 92 96 100 ...
Sotirios A. Barber. The Constitution's Formal Adequacy 122 Welfare and the Courts 142 Index 157 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MY THANKS to the American Council of Learned Societies viii CONTENTS.
Sotirios A. Barber. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. MY THANKS to the American Council of Learned Societies and to Notre Dame's College of Arts and Letters for supporting a sabbatical year devoted to this project. I'm grateful also to the participants of ...
Sotirios A. Barber. PREFACE. THIS BOOK is about the general welfare and the American Constitution. Its central question is whether government in America is constitutionally obligated to do what it reasonably can to secure a good life for ...
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Charter of Negative Liberties Arguments from Text and History | 23 |
Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences | 42 |
Moral Philosophy and the NegativeLiberties Model | 65 |
The Instrumental Constitution | 92 |
Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends? | 118 |
Index | 157 |