Welfare and the Constitution / / Sotirios A. Barber.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Forum Books ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter One. Introduction: Every State a Welfare State
- Chapter Two. Charter of Negative Liberties: Arguments from Text and History
- Chapter Three. Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences
- Chapter Four. Moral Philosophy and the Negative-Liberties Model
- Chapter Five. The Instrumental Constitution
- Chapter Six. Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends?
- Index