Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyThe defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires. |
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... amendment process supervised by an independent " Council of Censors . " 23 By the 1780s , Americans had developed institutions more adequate to the distinction between fundamental and ordinary law . Massachusetts ' constitution of 1780 ...
... amendment . Although enumerating rights would not achieve the Anti - Federalist aim of reducing national power vis - à - vis the states , it would remove the one popular source of opposition to the Constitution . No one grasped this ...
... amendments he pro- posed would have gone beyond anything the Anti - Federalists had sought , and constrained the conduct of the states . In addition to the restraints on Congress ultimately adopted , Madison proposed an amendment to pro ...
... Amendment by taking his property for public use without just compensation . A unanimous Supreme Court ruled otherwise . As Chief Justice John Marshall wrote , " the Fifth Amendment must be understood as restraining the power of the ...
... Amendment : Rights as Trumps The Civil War resolved what the Constitution had not , and established the supremacy of the national government over the states . During Recon- struction the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments abolished ...
Contents
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Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech | 55 |
Privacy Rights and Family Law | 91 |
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic | 123 |
Free Labor versus Wage Labor | 168 |
Community SelfGovernment and Progressive Reform | 201 |
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution | 250 |
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic | 274 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel Limited preview - 1998 |
Liberalism and Its Critics: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1998 |
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1996 |