LEADER 03498nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910451810303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73023-8 010 $a9786611730239 010 $a0-300-12942-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300129427 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471976 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171449 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149681 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144557 035 $a(PQKB)11561850 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420314 035 $a(DE-B1597)485460 035 $a(OCoLC)1024020767 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300129427 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420314 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210197 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173023 035 $a(OCoLC)923591992 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471976 100 $a20000612d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFreedom and time$b[electronic resource] $ea theory of constitutional self-government /$fJed Rubenfeld 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (266 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-08048-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Living in the present -- pt. 2. Being over time -- pt. 3. Constitutionalism as democracy. 330 $aShould we try to "live in the present"? Such is the imperative of modernity, Jed Rubenfeld writes in this important and original work of political theory. Since Jefferson proclaimed that "the earth belongs to the living"-since Freud announced that mental health requires people to "get free of their past"-since Nietzsche declared that the happy man is the man who "leaps" into "the moment-modernity has directed its inhabitants to live in the present, as if there alone could they find happiness, authenticity, and above all freedom.But this imperative, Rubenfeld argues, rests on a profoundly inadequate, deforming picture of the relationship between freedom and time. Instead, Rubenfeld suggests, human freedom-human being itself--necessarily extends into both past and future; self-government consists of giving our lives meaning and purpose over time. From this conception of self-government, Rubenfeld derives a new theory of constitutional law's place in democracy. Democracy, he writes, is not a matter of governance by the present "will of the people" it is a matter of a nation's laying down and living up to enduring political and legal commitments. Constitutionalism is not counter to democracy, as many believe, or a pre-condition of democracy; it is or should be democracy itself--over time. On this basis, Rubenfeld offers a new understanding of constitutional interpretation and of the fundamental right of privacy. 606 $aLiberty 606 $aTime 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiberty. 615 0$aTime. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aConstitutional history 676 $a320/.01/1 700 $aRubenfeld$b Jed$f1959-$01038684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451810303321 996 $aFreedom and time$92460424 997 $aUNINA