Welfare And The Constitution
2005·192 pages
A scholarly defense of a welfarist view of the U.S. Constitution, challenging conventional interpretations.
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A scholarly defense of a welfarist view of the U.S. Constitution, challenging conventional interpretations.
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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 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 ...
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Brief mentions of religious authority in context of voucher schemes.
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Central focus on constitutional theory and welfarist political arguments.
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