
Democracy and Education in Classical Athens and the American Founding
Martin D. Carcieri(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 9. July 2002
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-8204-4973-9 (ISBN)
Description
Democracy and Education in Classical Athens and the American Founding grapples with the paradox inherent in the U.S. Supreme Court's San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez ruling, which found that education is not a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Through an examination of classical Athens under the educational influence of the Sophists and the key educational writings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, this book illustrates the close link between education and democracy on both historical and theoretical grounds. After demonstrating that the U.S. Constitution embodies a variant of democracy, namely liberal republicanism, it concludes that the Rodriguez decision was nonetheless correct, since it also rests on powerful arguments from democratic theory.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 16 cm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-4973-9 (9780820449739)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Martin D. Carcieri is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published articles in several prominent law journals.