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For the Ancient Greeks, the Common Good was the flourishing of the hierarchical network of people, known as the polis (one's city, or state). The phrase "common good" then, does not appear in texts of Plato, but instead the phrase "the good of a city". [12]
Common good constitutionalism's grounding in a Catholic moral framework has led to charges that, in practice, it is inherently theocratic. [29] David Dyzenhaus has heavily criticized Vermeule's conception of Common Good Constitutionalism, hailing it an "authoritarian" idea seeking to instill "Christian theocratic rule". [30]
In fact, the idea of the common good runs through public life in the United States. It was a key concept for the Enlightenment philosophers who influenced America’s founders.
This approach should take as its starting point substantive moral principles that conduce to the common good, principles that officials (including, but by no means limited to, judges) should read into the majestic generalities and ambiguities of the written Constitution.
A common good is rivalrous and non-excludable, meaning that anyone can use the resource but there is a finite amount of the resource available and it is therefore prone to overexploitation. [ 24 ] The paradigm of the tragedy of the commons first appeared in an 1833 pamphlet by English economist William Forster Lloyd .
Public or “common” goods are freely accessible by each member of the group. Olson further defines public goods as any good that “cannot feasibly be withheld from other members of the group when one member of the group consumes the good”, [3] even if those members did not contribute to the provision of that good. To provide an example ...
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In a typical example, governmental regulations can limit the amount of a common good that is available for use by any individual. [153] Permit systems for extractive economic activities including mining, fishing, hunting, livestock raising, and timber extraction are examples of this approach. [ 154 ]