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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... restrictions on legislative power , leaving their legal status in question.19 Moreover , most of the early constitutions were enacted by ordinary legislatures and adopted without ratification by the people . Some assemblies proceeded ...
... Restrictions on state governments were a matter for the various state constitutions to determine . The Bill of Rights , he recalled , had been enacted to quiet fears about the encroachment of federal power , not to protect individuals ...
... restrictions that would transform the role of the 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 ...
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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 |