Abstract:This paper considers the character of moral peoplehood, our life as a people, and the rules and principles through which that life is expressed. In so far as those rules and principles take legal form, as determining the ground rules of association and denoting political rights and duties, this moral community is also a jural community. The paper engages with Bernard Williams's thought with a view to resolving the tension between two conceptions of the constitution that differ in their account of the relations… Show more
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