Locke and the legislative point of view : toleration, contested principles, and law /
Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuck...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The legislative point of view and the ends of government. Contested laws and principles : Contested principles and the legislative point of view ; The analogy between laws and moral principles
- Contested principles and legislative point of view. Rule-utilitarianism and contested principles ; Locke, Proast, and contested principles ; The secular analogue of the Lockean argument ; Two illustrations
- Legislative consent and the public good. Problems with contractual consent ; Locke's legislative consent and the public good
- Beyond neutrality and perfectionism. Two liberal approaches ; Rawls and responsible agreement ; Raz and human well-being ; Beyond neutrality and perfectionism
- pt. 2. The legislative point of view. Institutional roles and the legislative point of view. Locke on legislative and executive powers ; Locke and the missing judicial power ; Judges as legislators : functions versus institutions ; Implications for contested roles
- Contested roles, interpretation, and the framer's point of view. Contested jurisdiction and the "framer's point of view" ; Contested constitutional jurisdiction in the United States ; Dworkin and the legislative point of view ; Originalism and the nature of law and legislation ; Boerne v. Flores ; Contested roles and the state of nature ; Conclusion
- Appendix 1 : Textual support for the legislature point of view
- Appendix 2. Locke's theory of consent and the ends of government.