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 pu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | New forum books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?