Welfare and the Constitution
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…
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- Full title :Welfare and the Constitution / Sotirios A. Barber.
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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 federal constit
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- Publication Date:©2003.
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- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 164 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400825837, 1400825830, 1282129414, 9781282129412, 9786612129414, 6612129417
- oclc:ocn367674507
- LC Classification:KF4552
- Dewey Decimal:342.7302
Table of Contents
Every state a welfare state -- Charter of negative liberties: arguments from text and history -- Negative constitutionalism and unwanted consequences -- Moral philosophy and the negative-liberties model -- The instrumental constitution -- Is the Constitution adequate to its ends?
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