The Constitution of the people reflections on citizens and civil society
To be a U.S. citizen is to be a member of a constitutional order that requires political unity but is also committed to social and cultural diversity. How do we solve the riddle of the one and the many? What is, in Tom Paine's words, "the constitution of the people"?This is a perennia...
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Lawrence, Kan.
University Press of Kansas
©1991, 1991
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Adams and Jefferson on slavery : two liberalisms and the roots of civic ambivalence / J. David Greenstone
- Citizenship, diversity, and the search for the common good / Robert N. Bellah
- "In common together" : unity, diversity, and civic virtue / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- How to make a republic work : the originality of the commercial Republicans / Michael Novak
- Constitutional rights and the shape of civil society / Michael Walzer
- Political "realism" and the progressive degradation of citizenship : a quiet constitutional crisis / Robert E. Calvert