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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... Bill of Rights did not apply to the states and was not understood to create individual immunities from all government action . Liberty was secured " largely through the preservation of boundaries between and among institutions ...
... authority but the express consent of a majority of the citizens collected by such regular mode as may be therein provided . " The Bill of Rights in the Early Republic The idea The Constitution of the Procedural Republic · 32.
... Bill of Rights . " It would " give great quiet to the people , " he thought , and would not take long to write . " With the aid of the state declarations , a bill might be prepared in a few hours . " Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts ...
... bill of rights is inappropriate to popular government . As Hamilton wrote in Federalist no . 84 , " bills of rights ... bill of rights . " The new federal government would not , after all , be " administered by foreigners - strangers to ...
... bill of rights . " A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth , general or particular , and what no just government should refuse , or rest on inferences . " 33 Seen from the standpoint of ...
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 |