Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and VirtuesMany have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues—as well as rights—seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination. |
Contents
Rights and Irresponsibility | |
Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously | |
Pursuing Ordered Liberty | |
Notes Acknowledgments Index | |
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