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1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The legislative point of view and the ends of government. Contested laws and principles : Contested principles and the legislative point of view ; The analogy between laws and moral principles -- Contested principles and legislative point of view. Rule-utilitarianism and contested principles ; Locke, Proast, and contested principles ; The secular analogue of the Lockean argument ; Two illustrations -- Legislative consent and the public good. Problems with contractual consent ; Locke's legislative consent and the public good -- Beyond neutrality and perfectionism. Two liberal approaches ; Rawls and responsible agreement ; Raz and human well-being ; Beyond neutrality and perfectionism -- pt. 2. The legislative point of view. Institutional roles and the legislative point of view. Locke on legislative and executive powers ; Locke and the missing judicial power ; Judges as legislators : functions versus institutions ; Implications for contested roles -- Contested roles, interpretation, and the framer's point of view. Contested jurisdiction and the "framer's point of view" ; Contested constitutional jurisdiction in the United States ; Dworkin and the legislative point of view ; Originalism and the nature of law and legislation ; Boerne v. Flores ; Contested roles and the state of nature ; Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : Textual support for the legislature point of view -- Appendix 2. Locke's theory of consent and the ends of government. |
| Summary |
Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke's potential contribution to this debate--what Tuckness terms the "legislative point of view"--Has long been obscured by overemphasis on his doctrine of consent. Building on a line of reasoning Locke made explicit in his later writings on religious toleration, Tuckness explores the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
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Locke, John, 1632-1704. |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 -- Et la science politique. |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704 -- Et le droit naturel. |
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Political ethics.
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Political ethics. |
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Legislative bodies -- Ethics.
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Legislative bodies -- Ethics. |
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Legislative power.
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Legislative power. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Tuckness, Alex Scott, 1971- Locke and the legislative point of view. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691095035 9780691095035 (DLC) 2001058004 (OCoLC)48475097 |
| ISBN |
9781400825394 (electronic book) |
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1400825393 (electronic book) |
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