“Secure the Blessing of Liberty to our Posterity”: The Founding Fathers and Intergenerational Solidarity
Moral and political obligations towards posterity are usually addressed in terms of justice. In this paper, instead, I wonder whether we might face the issue as a matter of intergenerational solidarity – though social, political and/or civic – by reassessing a famous, but often misinterpreted, debat...
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The University of Akureyri
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Online Access: | https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-17-no-5-2023/article-triple-blind-peer-review/secure-the-blessing-of-liberty-to-our-posterity-the-founding-fathers-and-intergenerational-solidarity/ |