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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... century - victory in World War II , unprecedented affluence , greater social justice for women and minorities , the end of the Cold War - our politics is beset with anxiety and frustration . The political parties , meanwhile , are ...
... century , rejected the classical view linking liberty and self - government . Hobbes ridicules the ancients for confusing " the liberty of the common- wealth " with the " liberty of particular men . " Athens and Rome may have been free ...
... century of the republic suggests that Americans have not always understood liberty to consist in the right to choose our values and ends . From the standpoint of twentieth - century constitutional law , so consumed by debates about ...
... century and a half . For Madison the case was clear . " It is proper that every Government should be disarmed of powers which trench upon those particular rights . I know , in some of the state constitutions , the power of the ...
... century of its existence , did the Bill of Rights play an important role in protecting individual liberties against federal infringement . Liberty in the early republic had less to do with individual guarantees against government action ...
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 |