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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... human flourishing,” etc.) or to derive the missing welfare rights from constitutional institutions and negative liberties (a right to education as prerequisite to democratic citizenship, for example, or as resulting from a right to ...
... human dignity that he says constitutes “[t]he only reason” to respect the free choices that “the market ethos commands.” But Goodin doubts that nonmarket principles alone can justify the welfare state, and he offers his market-based ...
... human action and provides that minimal level of predictability which individuals need to secure their own well-being.”13 The obvious response to Barry is that he assumes knowledge of the very sort he tries to deny. In effect, he ...
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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 |