Professor Eisgruber, the constitution, and the good society

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2151-2158

  Barber, Sotirios A ^a  

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1. See Sotirios A. Barber, On What the Constitution Means ch. 3 (1984).
2. Id. at 40, 72-75, 212; see also Sotirios A. Barber, Judicial Review and The Federalist, 55 U. Chi. L. Rev. 836, 839-44 (1988).
3. Id. at 40, 72-75, 212; see also Sotirios A. Barber, Judicial Review and The Federalist, 55 U. Chi. L. Rev. 836, 839-44 (1988).
4. See Sotirios A. Barber, Welfare and the Instrumental Constitution, 42 Am. J. Juris. 159, 160-73 (1997).
5. Christopher L. Eisgruber, Civic Virtue and the Limits of Constitutionalism, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 2131, 2131-37 (2001). I will not comment here on the specifics of Professor Eisgruber's comments on these other writers. What concerns me is where he places his emphasis on the larger question of the Constitution as an instrument of the good society. This last question is the prior question. Conceptions of the good society become important to constitutional theory once it is recognized that the Constitution is not at all indifferent to the good-that it is straightforwardly instrumental to a particular theory of the good.
6. Id. at 2133-34.
7. Id. at 2135.
8. Id. at 2137.
9. Id. at 2135.
10. Id. at 2137-38.
11. Martin Diamond, Ethics and Politics: The American Way, in The Moral Foundations of the American Republic 75, 81-85, 89-90 (Robert H. Horwitz ed., 3d ed. 1986).
12. Id. at 98-108.
13. 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (holding that abortion is protected as a privacy right under the Constitution).
14. 517 U.S. 620 (1996) (stating that religious objections are not a sufficient purpose for denying rights to homosexuals).
15. For a representative statement of this position, see Russell Hittinger, A Crisis of Legitimacy, in The End of Democracy? The Celebrated First Things Debate with Arguments Pro and Con and "The Anatomy of a Controversy" by Richard John Neuhaus 18-29 (Mitchell S. Muncy ed., 1997).
16. For a representative statement of this position, see Russell Hittinger, A Crisis of Legitimacy, in The End of Democracy? The Celebrated First Things Debate with Arguments Pro and Con and "The Anatomy of a Controversy" by Richard John Neuhaus 18-29 (Mitchell S. Muncy ed., 1997).
17. Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2133.
18. Id. at 2134.
19. Id.
20. Id. (citing Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom 418-19 (1986)).
21. Id.
22. Id.
23. Raz, supra note 18, at 414-15.
24. Id. at 415.
25. Id. at 421-22.
26. Id. at 423-24.
27. Id. at 415-17, 424. On Eisgruber's point about the couch potato, government does not have to prohibit such a life in order to actively promote richer lives through means that range from systems of tax-funded schools to subsidies for the arts and sciences and even the licensing of broadcasters. Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2135-36.
28. Id. at 415-17, 424. On Eisgruber's point about the couch potato, government does not have to prohibit such a life in order to actively promote richer lives through means that range from systems of tax-funded schools to subsidies for the arts and sciences and even the licensing of broadcasters. Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2135-36.
29. Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2135.
30. Id. at 2137.
31. Id. at 2138.
32. Id. at 2139.
33. Id. at 2137.
34. Id. at 2140.
35. Id. at 2143-44.
36. Id. at 2133-34.
37. Id. at 2134.
38. Id.
39. Id. at 2135.
40. Abraham Lincoln, From the Message to Congress in Special Session (July 4, 1861), in The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln 665, 674 (Philip Van Doren Stern ed., 1940).
41. 512 U.S. 687 (1994); Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2145 (citing Christopher L. Eisgruber, Political Unity and the Powers of Government, 41 UCLA L. Rev. 1297 (1994)).
42. 512 U.S. 687 (1994); Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2145 (citing Christopher L. Eisgruber, Political Unity and the Powers of Government, 41 UCLA L. Rev. 1297 (1994)).
43. Eisgruber, supra note 4, at 2145.
44. Michael S. Moore, Metaphysics, Epistemology and Legal Theory, 60 S. Cal. L. Rev. 453, 481-83 (1987).
45. See Diamond, supra note 10, at 103-04, 107.