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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... true well-being not just of the poor but of the nation as a cultural whole. Following my discussion later in this introductory chapter about matters of terminology and argumentative strategy, my first step is to describe the basic ...
... true needs and the morally and instrumentally best ways to pursue them. Efforts of this sort can adduce evidence that favors the market, but because this can happen only under some conditions and in some respects, the welfare state—that ...
... true well-being. Constitutional government at its ideal best must therefore bring public opinion as far as it can be brought toward the public's true well-being. Or, in the alternative, constitutional government should pursue 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 |