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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... promote welfare but whose welfare government should promote and why the welfare of some but not others. These readers might well ask why Preface.
... promoting the people's welfare entails affirmative governmental duties and corresponding rights. The current view excludes any right in the people to what Lincoln called a “government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of ...
... promote the general welfare can do much to redeem that promise. This question is largely beyond the scope of this book. Whether and under what conditions the nation's public philosophy is ever likely to shift in a positive direction are ...
... promote it. THE NEGATIVE-LIBERTIES MODEL OF THE CONSTITUTION Present-day students of the Constitution seem generally to assume that, for better or worse, the Constitution leaves government's provision of goods and services, from ...
... promote the well-being of its people. EVERY STATE AWELFARE STATE? In an oft-quoted statement Michael Walzer once proposed that the fundamental duty of any government is to benefit its people. Because every political community claims 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 |