Welfare and the Constitution /:

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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1. Verfasser: Barber, Sotirios A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Schriftenreihe:New forum books.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 164 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400825837
1400825830
1282129414
9781282129412
9786612129414
6612129417

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