Welfare and the Constitution
- ISBN: 9780691123752
- Editorial: Princeton University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: New Jersey. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: New Forum Books
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 164
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Rústica
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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 in fluid prose, Barber opposes the shared view of America's Right and Left: that the federal constitutional duties of public officials are limited to respecting negative liberties and maintaining processes of democratic choice.
