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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... less engage in it , without recourse to a language laden with theory - of rights and obligations , citizenship and freedom , democracy and law . Political institutions are not simply instruments that implement ideas independently ...
... less as a claim than as a question : " Who is to judge ? " But the same question can be asked of the values that liberals defend . Toleration and freedom and fairness are values too , and they can hardly be defended by the claim that no ...
... less reasonable than it would be on rival moral and religious assumptions . The more confident we are that fetuses are , in the relevant moral sense , different from babies , the more confident we can be in affirming a political ...
... less to do with individual rights as such than with the respective roles of the state and federal governments . " Why did the Constitution include no bill of rights ? " the Anti - Federalists constantly asked . Rights and the Neutral ...
... less on bills of rights than on " a pure and adequate representation " in the legislature.30 It was this broader argument of political theory that evoked from the most sophisticated Anti - Federalists a case for individual rights ...
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 |