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Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
by Stephen Breyer
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Author: Stephen Breyer
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Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Stephen Breyer on FREE shipping on qualifying offers A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Justice Breyer Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution THE THEME ACTIVE LIBERTY THE THEME CONSIDERED The concept of active liberty—as I said at the outset—refers to a sharing of a nations sovereign authority among its people Sovereignty involves the legitimacy of a governmental action Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution A brilliant new approach to the Constitution and courts of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Justice Breyer the Constitution’s primary role is to preserve and encourage what he calls “active liberty” citizen participation in shaping government and its laws active liberty Interpreting our Democratic constitution active liberty Interpreting our Democratic constitution stEPhEn BrEYEr The Tanner Lectures on Human Values Delivered at Harvard university november 17–19 2004 stephen G Breyer is an associate justice of the united states supreme court where he has served since 1994 Active liberty interpreting our democratic Constitution Includes bibliographical references pages 137149 and index This book based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004 defines the term active liberty as a sharing of the nations sovereign authority with its citizens Regarding the Constitution as a guide for the application of basic American principles to a living and changing society rather than as an arsenal of rigid legal means for binding and restricting it Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution The First Amendments language says that Congress shall not abridge the freedom of speech But it does not define the freedom of speech in any detail The nations Founders did not speak directly about campaign contributions Madison who decried faction
