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Liberal constitutionalism and its contemporary challenges

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Liberal constitutionalism and its contemporary challengesedited by Gordon Albert Babst, Renée Nicole Souris, Joan McGregor.
other author:	Babst, Gordon Albert.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024.
Description:	vi, 194 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Democracy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1
ISBN:	9783031536021$q(electronic bk.)

Liberal constitutionalism and its contemporary challenges
Liberal constitutionalism and its contemporary challenges[electronic resource] /edited by Gordon Albert Babst, Renée Nicole Souris, Joan McGregor. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - vi, 194 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - AMINTAPHIL: the philosophical foundations of law and justice,v. 122351-9851 ;. - AMINTAPHIL: the philosophical foundations of law and justice ;7..

Introduction -- Part I -- Is the American Form of Government a Democracy? Signs of Systemic Oligarchy in Direct and Representative Democracy -- Truth Matters: Factual Accuracy, Theoretic Rationality, and the Legitimacy of Political Decision-Making -- Learning How to Read: Legal Hermeneutics -- Deference without Virtue: A Concern for Common Good Constitutionalism -- Dworkinian Protestantism, Civil Disobedience, and Democratic Citizenship -- Constructive Interpretation, Democracy, and the Protestant Attitude -- Part II -- Structural Injustices in the Educational System, Inequality, and its Effects on Democracy -- The Black Scare -- Representative Democracy, the Right to Vote and the Weighting of Votes -- The Importance of Condorcet Consistency in Preserving Democracy -- Comprehensive Pluralism, Liberalism, and Religious Liberty.

The edited volume brings together contemporary work by philosophers, legal scholars, and political theorists. This volume presents relevant understandings of the common good, democracy, liberty, and law, and situates them in the context of contemporary countervailing pressures posed by issues in education, access to medical treatment in a pandemic, and the media. Motivated to ascertain how democracy is threatened by a variety contemporary challenges, the authors examine core aspects of law, representative democracy, and constitutionalism to shed light on worrisome contemporary phenomena such as social media-driven conspiracy theories, unequal access to education and medical treatment, among other topics.

ISBN: 9783031536021$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

174816
Democracy.

LC Class. No.: JC421

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8

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