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Author | : Adrian Vermeule |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509548882 |
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The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as “a reasoned ordering to the common good.” In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of “common good constitutionalism.” This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.
Author | : Adrian Vermeule |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199914095 |
Download Law and the Limits of Reason Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Law and the Limits of Reason asks "what are the consequences of recognizing the limits of reason within the legal system?" In particular, what are the consequences for the allocation of lawmaking authority among judges, legislators, and administrative agencies or executive officials? Vermeule examines the conditions under which the limits of reason support a greater or lesser allocation of authority to one institution or another.
Author | : James Reist Stoner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download Common-law Liberty Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In an ere as morally confused as ours, Stoner argues, we at least ought to know what we've abandoned or suppressed in the name of judicial activism and the modern rights-oriented Constitution. Having lost our way, perhaps the common law, in its original sense, provides a way back, a viable alternative to the debilitating relativism of our current age.
Author | : Ronald Dworkin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674319288 |
Download Freedom's Law Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Dworkin claims that Americans have been systematically misled about what their Constitution is and how judges interpret it. In discussions of constitutional cases and general constitutional principles, he argues that a distinctly American version of government based on a "moral" reading of the Constitution offers the best definition of democracy.
Author | : Maurice Glasman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509528881 |
Download Blue Labour Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. New Labour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school statism and identity politics. Both ultimately failed. In this book, Maurice Glasman takes the axe to the soulless utilitarianism and ‘progressive’ intolerance of both Blair and Corbyn. Human beings, he contends, are not calculating machines, but faithful, relational beings who yearn for meaning and belonging. Rooted in their homes, families and traditions, they seek to resist the revolutionary upheaval of markets and states, which try to commodify and dominate their lives and homes, by the practice of democracy, mutuality and pluralism. This is the true Labour tradition, which is paradoxically both radical and conservative – and more relevant than ever in a post-COVID world. This crisp statement of the real politics of Blue Labour – rather than the absurd caricature of its detractors – is Glasman’s love letter to the left-conservatism that provides Labour’s best chance of moral – and indeed electoral – redemption.
Author | : John O. McGinnis |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 067472626X |
Download Originalism and the Good Constitution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was enacted by supermajorities--both its original enactment under Article VII and subsequent Amendments under Article V. A text approved by supermajorities has special value in a democracy because it has unusually wide support and thus tends to maximize the welfare of the greatest number. The authors recognize and respond to many possible objections. Does originalism perpetuate the dead hand of the past? How can originalism be justified, given the exclusion of African Americans and women from the Constitution and many of its subsequent Amendments? What is originalism's place in interpretation, after two hundred years of non-originalist precedent? A fascinating counterfactual they pose is this: had the Supreme Court not interpreted the Constitution so freely, perhaps the nation would have resorted to the Article V amendment process more often and with greater effect. Their book will be an important contribution to the literature on originalism, now the most prominent theory of constitutional interpretation.
Author | : Martin Rhonheimer |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0813220092 |
Download The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy offers a rich collection of essays in political philosophy by Swiss philosopher Martin Rhonheimer. Like his other books in both ethical theory and applied ethics, which have recently been published in English, the essays included are distinguished by the philosophical rigor and meticulous attention to the primary and secondary literature of the various topics discussed
Author | : N. W. Barber |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018-07-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192535684 |
Download The Principles of Constitutionalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this follow-up volume to the critically acclaimed The Constitutional State, N. W. Barber explores how the principles of constitutionalism structure and influence successful states. Constitutionalism is not exclusively a mechanism to limit state powers. An attractive and satisfying account of constitutionalism, and, by derivation, of the state, can only be reached if the principles of constitutionalism are seen as interlocking parts of a broader doctrine. This holistic study of the relationship between the constitutional state and its central principles - sovereignty; the separation of powers; the rule of law; subsidiarity; democracy; and civil society - casts light on long-standing debates over the meaning and implications of constitutionalism. The book provides a concise introduction to constitutionalism and a detailed account of the nature and implications of each of the principles in question. It concludes with an examination of the importance of constitutional principles to the work of judges, legislators, and others involved in the operation and creation of the constitution. The book is essential reading for those seeking a definitive account of constitutionalism and its benefits.
Author | : J nos Kis |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789639241329 |
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Janos Kis outlines a new theory of constitutional democracy. Addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights on the one hand, and democratic equality on the other. Liberalism is said to compromise democracy, while democracy is said to endanger the values of liberalism.
Author | : Richard A. Epstein |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 889 |
Release | : 2014-01-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674727800 |
Download The Classical Liberal Constitution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs close textual reading, historical analysis, and political and economic theory to urge a return to the classical liberal theory of governance that animated the framers’ original text, and to the limited government this theory supports. “[An] important and learned book.” —Gary L. McDowell, Times Literary Supplement “Epstein has now produced a full-scale and full-throated defense of his unusual vision of the Constitution. This book is his magnum opus...Much of his book consists of comprehensive and exceptionally detailed accounts of how constitutional provisions ought to be understood...All of Epstein’s particular discussions are instructive, and most of them are provocative...Epstein has written a passionate, learned, and committed book.” —Cass R. Sunstein, New Republic