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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 pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barber, Sotirios A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verfassung <1787>
Ethiek.
Grondwetten.
Verzorgingsstaat.
Staatsrecht.
Wohlfahrtsstaat
Welfare state > Philosophy.
Constitutional law > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Constitutions.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
État providence > États-Unis > Philosophie.
Droit constitutionnel > États-Unis > Philosophie.
Welfare state > United States > Philosophy.
Constitutional law > United States > Philosophy.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9781400825837

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