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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... Liberalism's Private Sphere Does a Welfare Constitution Reach Too High? CHAPTER FOUR Moral Philosophy and the Negative-Liberties Model Is the Benefits Model Unjust or Unfair? Is the Benefits Model Undemocratic? Is the Benefits Model ...
... liberal order can and should debate substantive theories of the general welfare and use those theories to evaluate public policies in the Constitution's name. I propose, as a working hypothesis with which the needed discussion might ...
... liberal or self-critically secular education at public expense for the children of all who want it. I also argue that because enforcing many such state duties falls more to the taxpaying electorate than to the judiciary, declining ...
... liberal regime, and an incapacity to act on reasons that anonymous, competent, and autonomous persons can recognize as good reasons. The book's final chapter exposes my pessimism about the shape of things to come in America and reflects ...
... Liberal Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), chap. 8; Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost of Rights (New York: Norton, 1999) 87–94; Frank I. Michelman, “Foreword: On Protecting the Poor through the ...
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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 |