Greg Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assumption College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5353-2500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lincoln and the Moral Dimension of Compromise
Noah Feldman’s new book on Abraham Lincoln’s constitutionalism accomplishes the considerable feat of saying something new about its subject. Feldman argues that Lincoln presided over constitutional fracture, the result of which was a salutary shift from the “compromise Constitution,” which made its peace with enslavement for the sake of union, to the “moral Constitution,” which is rooted in a substantial moral aspiration. Yet compromise is more t…
Response to Lee J. Strang’s Review of The Political Constitution
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Introduction to a Symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment
ABSTARCTThis symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment engages a series of vital questions about its meaning and importance. Often called “a second American founding,” the Fourteenth Amendment remains highly relevant to contemporary constitutional debates, especially because its enforcement mechanism has largely been transferred from the Congress to the courts. In this sense, the debate over the Fourteenth Amendment is not simply a conversation about…
Old Whigs
The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern situation appeared untenable. Placing their statesmanship and writings in relief helps to illuminate prudence in its full dimensions: inflected with caut…
The Cussedness of Nathan Glazer
The Birth of Tragedy
Of Prudence and Principle
Edmund Burke Redux
James Madison and the Legitimacy of Majority Factions
Scholarship on the political thought of James Madison has long been divided between adherents of the “liberal” and “republican” views, with a fusion between them recently emerging as the dominant understanding. Yet one element of Madison’s thought cannot be neatly elided: the question of which value prevails when balancing mechanisms fail and a choice between majority rule and minority rights is unavoidable. This essay argues that Madison sided e…
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James Madison and the Legitimacy of Majority Factions
Scholarship on the political thought of James Madison has long been divided between adherents of the “liberal” and “republican” views, with a fusion between them recently emerging as the dominant understanding. Yet one element of Madison’s thought cannot be neatly elided: the question of which value prevails when balancing mechanisms fail and a choice between majority rule and minority rights is unavoidable. This essay argues that Madison sided e…
Edmund Burke Redux
Of Prudence and Principle
The Birth of Tragedy
The Cussedness of Nathan Glazer
Introduction to a Symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment
ABSTARCTThis symposium on the Fourteenth Amendment engages a series of vital questions about its meaning and importance. Often called “a second American founding,” the Fourteenth Amendment remains highly relevant to contemporary constitutional debates, especially because its enforcement mechanism has largely been transferred from the Congress to the courts. In this sense, the debate over the Fourteenth Amendment is not simply a conversation about…
Old Whigs
The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern situation appeared untenable. Placing their statesmanship and writings in relief helps to illuminate prudence in its full dimensions: inflected with caut…
Response to Lee J. Strang’s Review of The Political Constitution
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Lincoln and the Moral Dimension of Compromise
Noah Feldman’s new book on Abraham Lincoln’s constitutionalism accomplishes the considerable feat of saying something new about its subject. Feldman argues that Lincoln presided over constitutional fracture, the result of which was a salutary shift from the “compromise Constitution,” which made its peace with enslavement for the sake of union, to the “moral Constitution,” which is rooted in a substantial moral aspiration. Yet compromise is more t…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Constitution (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Compromise (2 works)