| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 164 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Constitutional law. |
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United States. |
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Philosophy. |
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Welfare state -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Welfare state. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barber, Sotirios A. Welfare and the Constitution. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003 069111448X 9780691114484 (DLC) 2002193000 (OCoLC)51046763 |
| ISBN |
9781400825837 (electronic book) |
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1400825830 (electronic book) |
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