Babst, Gordon Albert. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Souris, Renée Nicole. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt McGregor, Joan. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access VI, 194 p. 5 illus. in color. online resource. 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. 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. edited by Gordon Albert Babst, Renée Nicole Souris, Joan McGregor. Law Philosophy Law History Constitutional law Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Constitutional Law Philosophy of Law K201-487 K140-165 9783031536021 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53602-1 240516 20251030112044.0 978-3-031-53602-1