03842nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-53602-1 DE-He213 20251030112044.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240516s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031536021 978-3-031-53602-1 10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1 doi K201-487 K140-165 LAB bicssc LAW000000 bisacsh LAB thema Liberal Constitutionalism and its Contemporary Challenges [electronic resource] / edited by Gordon Albert Babst, Renée Nicole Souris, Joan McGregor. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VI, 194 p. 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice, 2351-9851 ; 12 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. Law Philosophy. 67596 Law History. 67597 Constitutional law. Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. 67600 Constitutional Law. Philosophy of Law. 72251 Babst, Gordon Albert. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76896 Souris, Renée Nicole. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76897 McGregor, Joan. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 76898 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031536014 Printed edition: 9783031536038 Printed edition: 9783031536045 AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice, 2351-9851 ; 12 76899 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1 ZDB-2-LCR ZDB-2-SXLC 59894 59894