Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 páginas In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We can understand this modern condition only by recognizing that any political community, even a liberal one, is bound together by faith, love, and identity. |
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... sovereignty. But we will never under- stand the character of the American rule of law without first under- standing the way in which it is embedded in a conception of popular sovereignty. More importantly, we will not understand the way ...
... popular sovereignty. My own beliefs in this regard, however, are as irrelevant to the analysis as my own religious beliefs are to understanding the nature of Christian or Jewish faith. 25 Contemporary theorists who have appealed to ...
... popular sovereignty does not make us indif- ferent to the liberal content of the rule of law. Law and popular sover- eignty exist in a reciprocal relationship. Our faith in the popular sover- eign is to some extent a function of the law ...
... popular sovereign . Without that , what purports to be law is only " action under the color of law " ; it is uncon ... sovereignty , we will not comprehend the nature of the law in what may be an emerging American Empire . Nor will we ...
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