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A Constitution in Full - Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (Hardcover)
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A Constitution in Full - Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (Hardcover)
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When political debates devolve, as they often do these days, into a
contest between big-government progressivism and natural rights
individualism, Americans tend to appeal to the "self-evident"
truths inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution. But Peter Lawler and Richard Reinsch remind us that
these truths understood in the abstract are untethered from a
prior, unwritten constitution presupposed by the Framers-one found
in culture, customs, traditions, experiences, and beliefs. A
Constitution in Full is Lawler and Reinsch's attempt to return this
critical context to US constitutionalism-to recover a political
sense of individualism in relation to country, family, religious
community, and nature. Power, the authors suggest, is a public
trust, not a form of obedience to either majoritarian suppression
of particular liberties or the endless rights-claims lodged by
autonomous individuals against society. Instead, power is ordered
to the demands of a shared political enterprise that emerges from
man's social nature. Building on political insights from Alexis de
Tocqueville, Orestes Brownson, John Courtney Murray, and others
Lawler and Reinsch seek to restore the relational person-the
individual grounded in family, work, faith, and community-to a
central place in our understanding of republican constitutionalism.
Their work promotes the ongoing development of constitutional
self-government rooted in our historical, legal, and religious
foundations. The shared middle-class values that once united almost
all Americans as well as any confidence in democratic deliberation
or political liberty are rapidly atrophying. This book aims to
rebuild this confidence by helping us think seriously about the
complex interplay between political and economic liberties and the
relational life of creatures and citizens.
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