If it can be shown, after all, that
the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?
Not exact matches
Deneen's immediate source for the
Founding = Locke = THE
FEDERALIST = individualistic techno - nihilism is what Paul Seaton astutely called the anti-Founderism of his brilliant and wonderful teacher Carey McWilliams.
I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical
federalists by this narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the
founding of autonomous communities with a shared vision of what a good life entails.
He himself
finds it in a «
federalist» position that is eerily reminiscent of Dworkin's (or Nozick's) neutral state.