Property and the Pursuit of Happiness

Released on by Edward J. Erler
preview-18

  • Property and the Pursuit of Happiness Book Detail

  • Author : Edward J. Erler
  • Release Date : 2019-07-26
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 245
  • ISBN 13 : 1538130874
  • File Size : 93,93 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Property and the Pursuit of Happiness by Edward J. Erler PDF Summary

Book Description: In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought. Erler argues that the Founders considered the natural right to property as the comprehensive right that included every other right. In this sense they followed political philosopher John Locke, but at the same time made significant improvements on Locke, making it moral and political, something they called the “pursuit of happiness.” In the past century, this understanding of the right to property—derived from the principles of the Declaration of Independence—has been challenged by the rise of progressivism, which places promoting community welfare above the protection of individual rights as the central role of government. This has led to the administrative state’s unrelenting attacks on the right to private property, which have effectively ended the right to property as it was understood by the founders. Property and the Pursuit of Happiness offers a learned and wide-ranging discussion of the values at the core of America’s founding that will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the founders’ vision and the profound challenges to it today.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Property and the Pursuit of Happiness books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Property and the Pursuit of Happiness

Property and the Pursuit of Happiness

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 5945 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in

In Pursuit

In Pursuit

File Size : 79,79 MB
Total View : 8159 Views
DOWNLOAD

A modern classic--back in print and available again. Originally published in 1988, this book draws on advances in psychology and sociology to explore the fundam

Property and Freedom

Property and Freedom

File Size : 99,99 MB
Total View : 5642 Views
DOWNLOAD

"A superb book about a topic that should be front and center in the American political debate" (National Review), from the acclaimed Harvard scholar and histori

Declaring Independence

Declaring Independence

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 5419 Views
DOWNLOAD

Preoccupied with the spectacle of sincerity, the quest for a natural language led paradoxically to a greater theatricalization of public speaking as well as to