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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... least a moral obligation to try to keep the promises they make to the electorate, and people typically vote and pay taxes voluntarily only for benefits promised or received. Informed readers will connect this moral obligation to the ...
... least “traditional” in derivation and “perfectionist” in execution. Deploying arguments from my previous works, present-day progressive writers, neo-Aristotelians, and American classics like The Federalist and the speeches of Lincoln ...
... least deniable of governmental benefits (like police protection) puts us on a slippery slope to totalitarian socialism. While the role of the negative-liberties model in arguments against welfare provision is evident enough, the model ...
... least a minimalist welfare state,” leaving “marketeers willing to resist the argument for the welfare state . . . with utterly unpalatable options at every turn” (42–43). Goodin himself holds that some reasons. 9Michael Walzer, Spheres ...
... least that can be said is that market principles cease to be normative for civic communities established to serve the needs of their members, and these communities have a reason to compensate for the market's failure. The community's ...
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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 |