Barber Welfare and the Constitution

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2583-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 49, 192 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, Sotirios A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Every State a Welfare State 1

The Negative-Liberties Model of the Constitution 5

Every State a Welfare State? 8

"Welfare": How Capacious the Term? 12

CHAPTER TWO: Charter of Negative Liberties: Arguments from Text and History 23

Is Positive Constitutionalism Ahistorical? 23

Welfare and the Framers 36

CHAPTER THREE: Negative Constitutionalism and Unwanted Consequences 42

The Slippery Slope in General 42

Does Welfare Constitutionalism Undermine Negative Liberties? 44

A Benefits Model and Liberalism's Private Sphere 53

Does a Welfare Constitution Reach Too High? 55

CHAPTER FOUR: Moral Philosophy and the Negative-Liberties Model 65

Is the Benefits Model Unjust or Unfair? 65

Is the Benefits Model Undemocratic? 68

Is the Benefits Model Antiliberal? 71

The Moral Philosophy of Positive Constitutionalism 77

Welfare and Moral Skepticism 79

Moral Philosophy and Intolerance 86

CHAPTER FIVE: The Instrumental Constitution 92

Some Formal Elements of the Instrumental Constitution 92

Welfare as an End of Government 96

Well-Being in America: A Hypothesis 100

What Constitutes Well-Being? 106

CHAPTER SIX: Is the Constitution Adequate to Its Ends? 118

Welfare and Power: Structure and Context of the Question 119

The Constitution's Formal Adequacy 122

Welfare and the Courts 142

Index 157

Über Autor(innen)

Sotirios A. Barber is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of On What the Constitution Means and The Constitution of Judicial Power, and coeditor of Constitutional Politics (Princeton).