Can anyone please help me on principles of Liberalism?
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Economic justice is the hub from which all other understandings of justice emanate. It is based upon FDR’s belief that “Necessitous men are not free men.”
Economic justice leads to other forms of justice that include free speech, freedom of religion, and other freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
The Constitution is a living, breathing document. This is evidenced by a common sense interpretation of the General Welfare Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Taxing and Spending Clause. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, “The Constitution was made for the people, not the people for the Constitution.”
The best vehicle for ensuring economic security is capitalism. But this is no longer laissez-faire capitalism, but capitalism built upon Keynesian economics and notions of distributive justice.
Economic justice is directly related to environmental justice. In order to sustain a long-term but fruitful capitalistic result we must disengage from the destructive effort of being “short term greedy” to becoming again “long term greedy.” This demands maintaining an environment that guarantees clean air, clean water, safe renewable energy and protection against dangerously altering our climate.
Economic justice is the hub from which all other understandings of justice emanate. It is based upon FDR’s belief that “Necessitous men are not free men.”
Economic justice leads to other forms of justice that include free speech, freedom of religion, and other freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
The Constitution is a living, breathing document. This is evidenced by a common sense interpretation of the General Welfare Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Taxing and Spending Clause. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, “The Constitution was made for the people, not the people for the Constitution.”
The best vehicle for ensuring economic security is capitalism. But this is no longer laissez-faire capitalism, but capitalism built upon Keynesian economics and notions of distributive justice.
Economic justice is directly related to environmental justice. In order to sustain a long-term but fruitful capitalistic result we must disengage from the destructive effort of being “short term greedy” to becoming again “long term greedy.” This demands maintaining an environment that guarantees clean air, clean water, safe renewable energy and protection against dangerously altering our climate.
Liberalism believes in protecting the right of private property. But with that said, private property comes with a social mortgage. And because private property is a creation of law government has an absolute right to intercede when the abuse of private property becomes offensive instead of defensive in nature.
The natural enemy of contemporary liberalism is Mudsill economics. Mudsill is a product of laissez-faire libertarianism. It is a form of capitalism that retains many elements of feudalism. As such, it is contrary to the General Welfare Clause.
Laissez-faire capitalism and orthodoxy is an outdated economic paradigm. The issue facing society is no longer addressing scarcity, but just distribution of profit.
Strict unyielding adherence to orthodox laissez-faire economics is a recipe for authoritarian government. When citizens are denied the ability to create wealth, the threat is communism. Likewise, when citizens see their economic security eroded, the threat then becomes fascism. Both these threats are antithetical to domestic tranquility and thus, liberalism.
Liberalism must again become the political philosophy of the working class, rural America and small businesses. These three groups should be thought of as natural liberal constituencies and should be treated as such. To that end, liberalism must become less urban centered and more inclusive. But contrary to popular thinking, we have lost these constituencies not by being “too radical” but by forgetting how to be true liberals.