Welfare and the Constitution / Sotirios A. Barber.

By:

Barber, Sotirios A

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400825837
1400825830
1282129414
9781282129412
9786612129414
6612129417

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Welfare and the Constitution.DDC classification:

342.7302 22

LOC classification:

KF4552 .B368 2003eb

Other classification:

86.54
PL 728

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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?

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.