Against obligation : the multiple sources of authority in a liberal democracy / Abner S. Greene.
2012
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Title
Against obligation : the multiple sources of authority in a liberal democracy / Abner S. Greene.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Call Number
K240 .G74 2012
ISBN
9780674064416
0674064410
0674064410
Description
viii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)756377612
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and index.
Record Appears in
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
The Case against Fidelity to Law, for Citizens and for Officials
1
A Roadmap and Some Baselines for Discussion
4
The Multiple Sources of Citizens' Obligations
20
The Relationship between Obligation and Legitimacy
24
1.
Against Political Obligation
35
Consent, Fair Play, and Political Participation
35
Natural Duty and Associative Obligation
56
Systemic Stability
94
2.
Accommodating Our Plural Obligations
114
Exiting from the Law
117
Permeable Sovereignty and the Religion Clauses
139
The Problem of Illiberal Groups
157
3.
Against Interpretive Obligation to the Past
161
The Authority of Constitutional Creators, and Readers
165
Debunking Prior Authority
172
The Proper Role of Fit in Constitutional Interpretation
201
Why My Jeffersonian Position Is neither Anti-Law nor Anti-Constitutionalism
206
4.
Against Interpretive Obligation to the Supreme Court
210
The Role of the Supreme Court in Settling Constitutional Issues
212
Interpretive Pluralism
215
Guidelines for Officials in Deciding Whether to Follow the Court
223
The Court's Response to Interpretive Challenge
247
Conclusion
252
Notes
255
Bibliography
303
Acknowledgments
323
Index
327