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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barber, Sotirios A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
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?