On Civic Education, Critical Thinking, and Civic Empowerment: A Response to...
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We greatly appreciate Catherine Ross’s gracious, thoughtful, and supportive intervention into the conversation between Kent Greenfield and us concerning civic...
View ArticleDo Civic Virtue and Responsibility Go Beyond Political Liberalism?
Thanks to James Fleming and Linda McClain for their response to my post. The exchange has helped to elucidate the many fine points of their book. I appreciate too the various ways in which our projects...
View ArticleCivic Education and Teaching at Home
I’m delighted to have been invited to be a guest on this forum. I thank Danielle for the invitation and the blog’s other authors for their hospitality. I thought I’d begin by chiming in on the recent...
View Article“Mutual Adjustment” of Conflicts between Liberty and Equality versus Winning...
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We appreciate Rick Garnett’s kind words about our book, Ordered Liberty, especially since he probably disagrees with us more than any of the other participants...
View ArticleCivic Virtues, Public Values, and Political Liberalism: A Further Response to...
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We thank Corey Brettschneider for his further post on political liberalism, civic virtues, and responsibility. He makes a number of claims about what political...
View ArticleOn the Responsibilities and Sovereignty of Citizens: Response to Robin West
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We greatly appreciate Robin West’s characteristically supportive and constructive yet challenging post concerning our book, Ordered Liberty: Rights,...
View ArticleOrdered Liberty: Further Reflections
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We have benefitted enormously from the rich and fruitful exchange in the Concurring Opinions symposium on our book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities,...
View Article“Mutual Adjustment” as (merely) congruence delayed
I am delighted by and grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Concurring Opinions symposium on Jim and Linda’s engaging, important, and challenging new book, Ordered Liberty. And, the...
View ArticleThe Substance of Constitutional Liberalism: Response to Robert Tsai
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We thank Robert Tsai for his praise of our book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013) and for raising...
View ArticleOrdered LIberty Symposium- Catherine J. Ross
Like others, I am delighted to participate in this discussion of Jim and Linda’s important new book, Ordered Liberty. Their work adds much-needed wisdom and common sense to a subject in which extremes...
View ArticleTheory as Recipe
I appreciate Jim’s and Linda’s clarifications of their project. If intellectual thought is always a mixture of ideas that have come before, we might think of constitutional theory as a recipe. What...
View ArticleMore on Mandatory Patriotism
I’ve enjoyed reading the various responses triggered by my initial post earlier in the week admitting to my doubts about Constitution Day and mandatory patriotism in general. My views are perhaps more...
View ArticleSovereign Citizens and Civic Responsibility
Jim and Linda’s wonderful book is a generous reinterpretation of the major cases of the U.S. liberal constitutional canon, with the aim of underscoring their fit with a reconstituted liberalism that...
View ArticleMore on Encouraging Patriotism: A Further Response to Kent Greenfield
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain In his further response to our book, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013), and our post, Kent Greenfield says...
View ArticleDemocratic Values v. Virtues: Brettschneider on Ordered Liberty
How can a liberal democracy promote its central values, such as autonomy and non-discrimination, at the same time that it protects basic rights, such as free speech? One common view is that these two...
View Article“Mutual Adjustment” as (merely) congruence delayed
I am delighted by and grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Concurring Opinions symposium on Jim and Linda’s engaging, important, and challenging new book, Ordered Liberty. And, the...
View ArticleConstitutional Theory of the Center: Response to Mark Graber
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We thank Mark Graber for generously blogging not only on this week’s concurring opinions symposium on our book, Ordered Liberty, but also on last week’s...
View ArticleThe Recipe for Ordered Liberty: A Further Response to Robert Tsai
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We appreciate Robert Tsai’s gracious and clever post in response to our initial post concerning the substance of our constitutional liberalism. The metaphor of...
View ArticleOnce More on the Pledge, Patriotism, and Ordered Liberty
I’ve continued to enjoy the discussion of Linda and Jim’s book, and particularly of the Constitution Day/mandatory patriotism issue. And as much as I liked the book, Jim, I’ve got to side with Kent on...
View ArticleWhy the State Can – and Should – Promote Public Values as well as Civic...
James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain We appreciate that Corey Brettschneider identifies with us as “kindred spirits in the project of developing a liberalism that is both rights protecting and also...
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