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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... things to come in America and reflects my belief that the Constitution is imperfect, even by its own standards. Fidelity to the Constitution hardly precludes this belief,4 for the ratification provisions of Article VII and the amending ...
... things is all we would avoid, why not reserve “rights” for “redistributive entitlements”? And if the answer is that people generally attach value to “rights” that we do not want attached to “entitlements, ” it can only be because there ...
... things whose association is admitted by all sides to be a mistake. Where there is no such admission, the argument assumes what has to be shown. Chapter 2 of this book contends that the state's provision of resources for ends like ...
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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 |