Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2004
ISSN
0015-704X
Publisher
Fordham University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
The brochure for the conference frames the questions for our panel on The Constitutional Essentials of Political Liberalism as "What are the implications of Rawls's conceptions of justice as fairness and political liberalism for constitutional theory? Might his account of constitutional essentials provide a useful guiding framework for conceiving the scheme of basic liberties embodied in the American Constitution? How thin are the commitments of our Constitution as compared with our richer commitments to constitutional justice and political justice? What are the implications of Rawls's work for theory of judicial review and for enforcement of constitutional rights and obligations outside the courts through legislative and executive institutions?" My Article will focus on the first and second questions. But it will have implications for the third and fourth as well.
Recommended Citation
James E. Fleming,
Securing Deliberative Democracy
,
in
72
Fordham Law Review
1435
(2004).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2842
