The United States Constitution was designed to secure the rights of individuals and minorities from the tyranny of the majority or was it? Jennifer Nedelsky's provocative study places this claim in an utterly new light, tracing its origins to the Framers' preoccupation with the protection of private property. She argues that this formative focus on property has shaped our institutions, our political system, and our very understanding of limited government."

This volume brings together essays on the nature of judgement. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgement and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgement from Lectures on Kant's Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgement; judgement as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgement in law and politics; and, the many puzzles that arise from the enlarged mentality, the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant treated as essential to judgement.

Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is glaringly inadequate. In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer Nedelsky claims that we must rethink our notion of autonomy, rejecting the usual vocabulary of control, boundaries, and individual rights. If we understand that we are fundamentally in relation to others, she argues, we will recognize that we become autonomous with others--with parents,...