Common Good Constitutionalism

Common Good Constitutionalism

by Adrian Vermeule
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/02/2022

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The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative?


Adrian Vermeule argues that the alternative has been there, buried in the American legal tradition, all along. He shows that US law was, from the founding, subsumed within the broad framework of the classical legal tradition, which conceives law as “a reasoned ordering to the common good.” In this view, law’s purpose is to promote the goods a flourishing political community requires: justice, peace, prosperity, and morality. He shows how this legacy has been lost, despite still being implicit within American public law, and convincingly argues for its recovery in the form of “common good constitutionalism.”


This erudite and brilliantly original book is a vital intervention in America’s most significant contemporary legal debate while also being an enduring account of the true nature of law that will resonate for decades with scholars and students.

ISBN:
9781509548880
9781509548880
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-02-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Polity Press
Adrian Vermeule

Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler, Jr., Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State and The Constitution of Risk.

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