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KF4552 .B368 2005eb
KF4552
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B368
2005eb
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0691123756
9780691123752
b757328
Welfare and the Constitution /
[Book]
Sotirios A. Barber.
Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2005.
1 online resource (xv, 164 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Every State a Welfare State; CHAPTER TWO: Charter of Negative Liberties: Arguments from Text and History; CHAPTER THREE: Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences; CHAPTER FOUR: Moral Philosophy and the Negative-Liberties Model; CHAPTER FIVE: The Instrumental Constitution; CHAPTER SIX: Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends?; Index
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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.
Constitutional law-- United States-- Philosophy.
Welfare state-- United States-- Philosophy.
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Welfare state-- Philosophy.
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