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Author | : Robert H. Bork |
Publisher | : American Enterprise Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jefferson Powell |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780822313144 |
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Locates the origins of constitutional law in the Enlightenment attempt to control the violence of the state by subjecting power to reason, then shows its evolution into a tradition of rational inquiry embodied in a community of lawyers and judges. Continues with discussion of how the tradition's 19th-century presuppositions about the autonomy and rationality of constitutional argument have been undermined in the 20th century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Ronald Dworkin |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198265573 |
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Dworkin's important book is a collection of essays which discuss almost all of the great constitutional issues of the last two decades, including abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexuality, pornography, and free speech. Dworkin offers a consistently liberal view of the Constitution and argues that fidelity to it and to law demands that judges make moral judgments. He proposes that we all interpret the abstract language of the Constitution by reference to moral principles about political decency and justice. His 'moral reading' therefore brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law. The various chapters of this book were first published separately; now drawn together they provide the reader with a rich, full-length treatment of Dworkin's general theory of law.
Author | : Michael J. Perry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1990-05-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019536239X |
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Addressing the proper relation of moral and religious belief to politics and law, especially constitutional law, Perry here discusses whether a common moral foundation exists that is capable of providing, in a diverse social system like ours, consistent guidelines for handling divisive political, policy, religious and constitutional disputes. His study represents a distinctive position in the vast and growing literature on the moral foundations of liberal political and legal life.
Author | : Alexander M. Bickel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780300021196 |
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Contrasts liberal views in the tradition of John Locke with conservative Whig attitudes as personified by Edmund Burke in a consideration of moral duty and civil disobedience
Author | : Graham Walker |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400861446 |
Download Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Graham Walker boldly recasts the debate over issues like constitutional interpretation and judicial review, and challenges contemporary thinking not only about specifically constitutional questions but also about liberalism, law, justice, and rights. Walker targets the "skeptical" moral nihilism of leading American judges and writers, on both the political left and right, charging that their premises undermine the authority of the Constitution, empty its moral words of any determinate meaning, and make nonsense of ostensibly normative theories. But he is even more worried about those who desire to conduct constitutional government by direct recourse to an authoritative moral truth. Augustine's political ethics, Walker argues, offers a solution--a way to embrace substantive goodness while relativizing its embodiment in politics and law. Walker sees in Augustinian theory an understanding of the rule of law that prevents us from mistaking law for moral truth. Pointing out how the tensions in that theory resonate with the normative ambivalence of America's liberal constitutionalism, he shows that Augustine can provide successful but decidedly nonliberal grounds for the artifices and compromises characteristic of law in a liberal state. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Ellis Washington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Arguing that the political and legal philosophy he advocates is the same as the one applied by the constitutional framers, Washington (business law and contracts, Davenport U.) argues that the "tempting sophistry" of separating law from morality" is at the root of the numerous problems in American institutions. He present 12 essays, some of which have been previously published, in which he decries the impact of such philosophical approaches to the law as utilitarianism, relativism, egalitarianism, secularism, feminism, progressivism, and pragmatism on the U.S.'s legal framework. His criticism of the effects of these philosophies is coupled with application of his natural law philosophy to such areas as juvenile delinquency, racism, international law, and pornography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Adrian Vermeule |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509548882 |
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The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative? Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as “a reasoned ordering to the common good.” In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of “common good constitutionalism.” This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.
Author | : John Anthony Rohr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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For civil servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution, that document is the supreme symbol of political morality. Constitutional issues are addressed by civil servants every day, whenever a policeman arrests a suspect or members of different branches of government meet. But how well do these individuals really understand the Constitution's application in their jobs? This book encourages civil servants to reflect on specific constitutional principles and events and learn to apply them to the decisions they make. Twenty seminal articles by a preeminent scholar seek to legitimate public service by grounding its ethics in constitutional practice. John Rohr stresses that ethical practice demands an immersion in the specifics of our constitutional tradition, and he offers a guide to attaining a greater sense of those constitutional principles that can be translated into action. Along the way he considers such timely issues as financial disclosure, the treatment of civil servants as second-class citizens, and instances of civil servants caught between executive and legislative forces. Rohr's opening essays demonstrate that responsible use of administrative discretion is the key issue for career civil servants. Subsequent sections examine approaches to training civil servants using constitutional principles; character formation resulting from study of the constitutional tradition; and the ethical choices that are sometimes posed by separation of powers. A final group of chapters shows how a study of other countries' constitutional traditions can deepen an understanding of our own, while a closing essay looks at past issues and future prospects in administrative ethics from the perspective of Rohr's long involvement in the field. Throughout this insightful collection, Rohr seeks to remind public servants of the nobility of their calling, reinforce their role in articulating public interests against the excesses of private concerns, and encourage managers to make greater use of constitutional language to describe their everyday activities. Although his work focuses on the federal career civil servant, it also offers valuable lessons applicable to state and local civil servants, elected officials, judges, military personnel, and those employed in the nonprofit sector.
Author | : Trevor R. S. Allan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199267880 |
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