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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... Supreme Court presides over the priority of right , in both senses of that priority . First , it defines the rights that constrain majority rule . Second , it tries to identify these rights in a way that does not presuppose any ...
... supreme judicial as well as legislative body , and that its legislative ... court but a sovereign lawmaking body . In the face of its power , the ... supreme legislative derives its power and authority from the Constitution , it cannot ...
... Supreme Court confirmed in Barron v . Baltimore ( 1833 ) . When the City of Baltimore ruined a privately owned wharf while paving its streets , the owner of the wharf claimed the city had violated the Fifth Amendment by taking his ...
... Supreme Court in protecting individual rights . It established that no state may " abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States " or " deprive any person of life , liberty , or property , without due process of ...
... Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment broadly and struck down a law restricting out - of - state insurance contracts as a denial of liberty without due process of law . The liberty protected by that amendment included " the ...
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 |