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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... authority under the general welfare clause of Article I and the respective powers in this area of legislatures and courts and the national government and the states. Readers can appreciate the complexities of the subject and still ...
... authority (state or citizenry) happens to define it, or as enabling whatever some political or philosophic authority conceives as effective citizenship. By some accounts citizenship may consist in no more than the bare right to vote and ...
... authority for the usage I propose. Justification for a broad sense of “welfare” lies also in the fact that there is no clear separation of redistributive policies from either regulatory policies or forbearances from regulation for the ...
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Contenido
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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 |