Ordered Liberty : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues / James E. Fleming, Linda C McClain.
Fleming, James E., author.; McClain, Linda C, author.
2013
KF4749 .F55 2013
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Title Ordered Liberty : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues / James E. Fleming, Linda C McClain.
Author Fleming, James E., author.
ISBN 9780674067455
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067455
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (334 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067455 doi
Call Number KF4749 .F55 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01/1
Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
1 Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
2 Rights and Irresponsibility
3 Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously
4 Civil Society's Role in Cultivating the "Seedbeds of Virtue"
5 Government's Role in Promoting Civic Virtues
6 Conflicts between Liberty and Equality
7 Autonomy versus Moral Goods
8 Minimalism versus Perfectionism
9 The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights
Epilogue: Pursuing Ordered Liberty
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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