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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... Arguments from Text and History Is Positive Constitutionalism Ahistorical? Welfare and the Framers CHAPTER THREE Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences The Slippery Slope in General Does Welfare Constitutionalism Undermine ...
... argument over the last several years, especially Jack Balkin, Christopher Eisgruber, Mark Graeber, Sanford Levinson, Stephen Macedo, Linda McClain, Frank Michelman, Lawrence Sager, Jeffrey Tulis, and Mark Tushnet. I am grateful also to ...
... arguments from history and moral theory. These arguments include an account of the framers of the Constitution as free marketeers, not social democrats; an argument that the welfare state tries to coerce people into conforming to, or ...
... argument of any sort—historical, scientific, metaethical, ethical, or prudential—defeats an ends-oriented or “welfarist” or “benefits” understanding of the Constitution. (3) Constitutional scholars who respect a liberal order can and ...
... arguments from my previous works, present-day progressive writers, neo-Aristotelians, and American classics like The Federalist and the speeches of Lincoln, the chapter proposes that the Constitution promises a government that is ...
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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 |