@article{1479150,
      recid = {1479150},
      author = {Fleming, James E.,  and McClain, Linda C, },
      title = {Ordered Liberty : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues /},
      pages = {1 online resource (334 p.)},
      abstract = {Many have argued in recent years that the U.S.  constitutional system exalts individual rights over  responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering  the charges against liberal theories of rights, James  Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic  liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues-as well  as rights-seriously. They provide an account of ordered  liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not  absolutely, and permits government to encourage  responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without  sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination.  The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current  controversies the authors use to defend their understanding  of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and  virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs  the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality,  procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex  couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods  of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue.  Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy  while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues  to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include  reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of  civil society and the family, the education of children,  and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of  association and religion) and antidiscrimination law.  Articulating common ground between liberalism and its  critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of  responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of  diversity in our morally pluralistic constitutional  democracy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479150},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067455},
}