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OverviewProperty and the Pursuit of Happiness presents an account of the crucial role the right to property understood in the comprehensive sense as the right that included every other right played in the American founding. This right was understood by the founders as the “pursuit of happiness,” which Edward J. Erler argues was considered to be both a natural right and a moral obligation. This book examines the works of John Locke, the English philosopher who had a profound influence on the American founding. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward J. ErlerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781538130865ISBN 10: 1538130866 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 15 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsFor the past forty years, Professor Edward Erler, has produced some of the finest legal commentary on constitutional law. He remains, perhaps, the most original, insightful, and provocative scholar of the American Constitution. His new book, Property and the Pursuit of Happiness; Locke, The Declaration of Independence, Madison and the Challenge of the Administrative State, shows why this is so. His insight into the Constitution is informed not merely by an understanding of the law, the judiciary, or the Constitution, but by an understanding of the theoretical and political conditions required in the defense of freedom and self-government. In elaborating the importance of property, as essential to the protection of rights, he reveals the absolute necessity of limited government constitutionalism as indispensable for the preservation of both. -- John Marini, University of Nevada, Reno Edward Erler has written the most remarkable book by any student of Harry Jaffa, which also means most likely by any student of Leo Strauss. Property and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the political and the philosophic meaning of both its key terms in America. He transcends dichotomies such as ancients and moderns to present the abiding heart of America's logos in its ousia. Erler's treatise smashes lame scholarship and noxious doctrines about Aristotle, Locke, Madison, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Supreme Court, Reconstruction, and the administrative state, and against them restores the principles of the West in the theological-political problem. Every serious citizen and scholar must come to terms with this profound and spirited examination of American politics. -- Ken Masugi, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University What was unique about the American Revolution, Ed Erler contends, was that for the first time in history, a nation was founded dedicated to a universal principle-the principle that `all men are created equal.' What is unique about Ed Erlers's penetrating book is that it takes the Declaration's truths seriously and elucidates how they provide the grounds for the Founders' constitutionalism. Exploring some of political philosophy's deepest themes-including natural rights, natural law, and the relationship between reason and revelation-Erler explains how the Founders held the protection of property rights to be the central idea animating their design for limited government and why its abandonment by influential 20th century progressives poses an existential threat to liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans today. -- Vincent Munoz, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Notre Dame Author InformationEdward J. Erler is Professor of Political Science emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino, and is a senior fellow of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of The American Polity: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Government, co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration, and has published numerous articles in law reviews and professional journals. Among his most recent articles are “The Decline and Fall of the Right to Property: Government as Universal Landlord;” and “The Second Amendment as a Reflection of First Principles;” he has also published several articles in the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Dr. Erler was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He has testified before the House and Senate Judiciary Committee on birthright citizenship, voting rights and other civil rights issues. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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