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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... sought to shape political life in the image of their own moral and religious ideals . But modern democratic societies are marked by a plurality of moral and religious ideals . Moreover , this pluralism is reasonable ; it reflects the ...
... sought to bracket . Even in the face of so dire a threat to social cooperation as the prospect of civil war , it made neither moral nor political sense to aspire to political neutrality . As Lincoln concluded in his final debate with ...
... sought to define its limits in a constitution conceived as fundamental law . In the Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1768 , opposing the Townshend Acts , Samuel Adams wrote : " In all free states the Constitution is fixed ; and as the ...
... sought means of enactment capable of conferring the higher authority that constitutions required . For how can a constitution constrain the very body that creates it ? Thomas Jefferson was troubled by this problem of authority and ...
... sought to limit national power , and they found in the bill of rights the most popular , though not necessarily the most effective , way of doing so . Throughout the ratification debates , the Anti - Federalist case for individual ...
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 |