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Social justice in the liberal state is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman, recipient of the French Order of Merit, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. The book is an essay in political philosophy, a "new view" of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will "challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy." To Ackerman, liberalism is a kind of structured conversation in which verbal negotiation among those with differing visions of the good life is an alternative to the exercise of naked power. Ackerman has mounted a profound challenge to contract thinking. It works, crudely, on the idea that the premises of a course of contract reasoning can be manipulated so as to yield (more or less) any conclusion that the theorist has some antecedent interest in producing. The social contract is the contract which would be confirmed by the entire population, under ideal conditions, after perfect and complete consideration. The privatization of religious convictions is also strongly defended. Ackerman argues for a maximal separation doctrine in that religion does not have an appropriate place in the public realm of a liberal democracy. The book also briefly suggests "responsive lotteries", prototypes of lottery voting as a way to decide issues, but leaves the question hanging in the air, inviting others to devote more serious thought to lottery voting.
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- Ackerman, Bruce A. (1980). Social justice in the liberal state. New Haven : Yale University Press. ISBN 0300024398.
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{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Treanor, Paul (11 Jan2003). "The politics of John Rawls". Retrieved 2006-07-16.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Rieffer, Barbara Ann (2006). "Religion, Politics and Human Rights" (PDF). University of Denver. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
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{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Amar, Akhil Reed (Mar 1984). "94 Colum. L. Rev. 457" (PDF). Directors of The Columbia Law Review Association. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
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