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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 53
... Constitutionalism Ahistorical? Welfare and the Framers CHAPTER THREE Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences The Slippery Slope in General Does Welfare Constitutionalism Undermine Negative Liberties? A Benefits Model and ...
... constitutionalist principles. It respects the claims of (constitution-minded) taxpayers and legislators, admitting only a secondary role for judges. It respects Lockean values like work, property, and personal responsibility. And it ...
... constitutionalism of the Progressive Era and the New Deal; it fails also to comprehend Jefferson's proposition, asserted to be “self-evident” in the Declaration of Independence, that legitimate governments are established by people “to ...
... constitutionalists, of all people, to concede that better ideas will probably have utterly no political consequences, and it should be no easier for academics to concede that superior theories have little hope in the academy. Also, as ...
Alcanzaste el límite de visualización de este libro.
Contenido
1 | |
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 |