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Property and the Pursuit of Happiness
eBook - Locke, the Declaration of Independence, Madison, and the Challenge of the Administrative State
ISBN/EAN: 9781538130872
Umbreit-Nr.: 2223008
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 26.07.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><span>In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought. Erler argues that the Founders considered the natural right to property as the comprehensive right that included every other right. In this sense they followed political philosopher John Locke, but at the same time made significant improvements on Locke, making it moral and political, something they called the pursuit of happiness.</span><br><br></p><p><br><br></p><p><span>In the past century, this understanding of the right to propertyderived from the principles of the Declaration of Independencehas been challenged by the rise of progressivism, which places promoting community welfare above the protection of individual rights as the central role of government. This has led to the administrative states unrelenting attacks on the right to private property, which have effectively ended the right to property as it was understood by the founders.</span><span>Property and the Pursuit of Happiness</span><span> offers a learned and wide-ranging discussion of the values at the core of Americas founding that will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the founders vision and the profound challenges to it today.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <span>Edward J. Erler argues that the American Founders considered the right to property the comprehensive natural right that included all other rights. They transformed John Locke¿s view of property into both a right and a duty, "the pursuit of happiness." This view of property has been systematically opposed by the rise of the administrative state.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <a></a><span>Edward J. Erler is Professor of Political Science emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino, and is a senior fellow of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of The American Polity: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Government, co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration, and has published numerous articles in law reviews and professional journals. Among his most recent articles are The Decline and Fall of the Right to Property: Government as Universal Landlord; and The Second Amendment as a Reflection of First Principles; he has also published several articles in the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Dr. Erler was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He has testified before the House and Senate Judiciary Committee on birthright citizenship, voting rights and other civil rights issues.</span><a></a>