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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... dissent , agreed that the case posed a constitutional question of " the gravest importance . " At stake was ... dissenters argued , a right now protected against infringement by the states . By the turn of the century , American ...
... certain individual rights prevailed against legislative policies enacted in the name of the public good . Justice Holmes in Dissent : Intimations of Neutrality While the. The Constitution of the Procedural Republic . 42.
... dissent that the Court enforced the wrong rights , that his conception of liberty was better , or truer to the Constitution , than theirs . But Holmes's disagreement with the Court was more thoroughgoing than that . Time and again he ...
... dissenting in Abrams v . United States ( 1919 ) , Holmes defended the right of radical protesters to distrib- ute a ... dissented in Gilbert v . Minnesota ( 1920 ) .67 Later he went further : " Despite arguments to the contrary which had ...
... dissent . He begins by arguing that judges should not decide the constitu- tionality of a law by imposing their own values : " This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain . If it ...
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 |