LEADER 04243nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910345146503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12941-4 010 $a9786612129414 010 $a1-4008-2583-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825837 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756322 035 $a(EBL)445422 035 $a(OCoLC)367674507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483156 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12577701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483156 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11422953 035 $a(PQKB)10092872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194827 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261492 035 $a(PQKB)10592964 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36355 035 $a(DE-B1597)446363 035 $a(OCoLC)979631680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445422 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284084 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445422 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756322 100 $a20050624d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWelfare and the Constitution /$fSotirios A. Barber 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 0 $aNew Forum Books ;$v49 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 $a0-691-11448-X 311 $a0-691-12375-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tChapter One. Introduction: Every State a Welfare State -- $tChapter Two. Charter of Negative Liberties: Arguments from Text and History -- $tChapter Three. Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences -- $tChapter Four. Moral Philosophy and the Negative-Liberties Model -- $tChapter Five. The Instrumental Constitution -- $tChapter Six. Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends? -- $tIndex 330 $aWelfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people. He shows that James Madison was right in saying that the "real welfare" of the people must be the "supreme object" of constitutional government. With conceptual rigor set in fluid prose, Barber opposes the shared view of America's Right and Left: that the federal constitutional duties of public officials are limited to respecting negative liberties and maintaining processes of democratic choice. Barber contends that no historical, scientific, moral, or metaethical argument can favor today's negative constitutionalism over Madison's positive understanding. He urges scholars to develop a substantive account of constitutional ends for use in critiquing Supreme Court decisions, the policies of elected officials, and the attitudes of the larger public. He defends the philosophical possibility of such theories while also offering a theory of his own as a starting point for the discussion the book will provoke. This theory holds, for example, that voucher schemes which drain resources from secular public schools to schools that would train citizens to submit to religious authority are unconstitutional; First Amendment issues aside, such schemes defeat what is undeniably an element of the "real welfare" of the people, individually and collectively: the capacity to think critically for oneself. 410 0$aNew Forum Books 606 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 606 $aWelfare state$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 615 0$aConstitutional law$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aWelfare state$xPhilosophy. 676 $a342.7302 700 $aBarber$b Sotirios A$0595672 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345146503321 996 $aWelfare and the constitution$9991778 997 $aUNINA