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As we lament Adrian Vermeule's Lenten absence, he has bequeated us this communitarian understanding of a constitution and the state it constitutes
"Promoting a substantive vision of the good is, always and everywhere, the proper function of rulers." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/
"Promoting a substantive vision of the good is, always and everywhere, the proper function of rulers." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/
This review by @suzania of Adrian Vermeule's essay is very good:
"And those conservatives who reject it do so, whether or not they realize it, on liberal bases; their conservatism is right-liberalism." https://mereorthodoxy.com/common-good-constitutionalism/
"And those conservatives who reject it do so, whether or not they realize it, on liberal bases; their conservatism is right-liberalism." https://mereorthodoxy.com/common-good-constitutionalism/
This response is very good on Adrian's piece and notes the requirement for subsidiarity...am surprised by the responses to what Adrian wrote that have missed the new emphasis based on subsidiary bodies inc trade unions, localities etc (Via @wupton ) https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/adrian-vermeules-brilliant-essay-on-common-good-constitutionalism/
An ongoing problem for the US' Right was how classical liberalism was heretically rebadged as "conservatism". Europe's Right never embraced Hayekian liberalism, rather Tory paternalism & Christian Democracy esp after Rerum Novarum.
Then came Thatcher & Reagan...and their cults
Then came Thatcher & Reagan...and their cults
The response to Adrian Vermeule & more traditional conservatism here by @sladesr interviewing @DavidAFrench probably puts the classically liberal case as well as it can be...but just shows the US Right's repurposing of liberalism over communitarianism https://reason.com/2020/04/11/i-think-the-protection-of-liberty-is-a-common-good/
