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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... manuscript for publication. This would have been a better book had time permitted more of my attention to the advice and criticism of these individuals. This page intentionally left blank PREFACE THIS BOOK is about Acknowledgments.
... critics of “welfare” hold that in a large country whose civic culture respects personal privacy, gives private persons rather than government the benefit of the doubt, and relies mostly on the impersonal processes of courts and ...
... Critics of the dole typically add that the welfare claims of able-bodied individuals who avoid work and bear children beyond their means are ultimately claims against taxpayers. And taxpayers are often outraged by what they believe to ...
Sotirios A. Barber. ignorance. Critics of the welfare state deserve credit for this insight even though it works against them. Though I also agree with the other side that the general welfare and the “welfare state” (the state of poor ...
... critics who saw the ratification debate as a contest between confederated and unitary or “consolidated” forms of government, the American Revolution teaches that “the real welfare of the great body of the people is the supreme object to ...
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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 |