Common Good Constitutionalism vs. America’s Enlightenment Civil Religion

• Authors: Jason Morgan

Abstracts

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In his 2022 volume Common Good Constitutionalism, and in a series of essays and other works prior to the book’s release, Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule advances a new vision for the American republic. Against the two dominant strains of constitutional interpretation in the United States, namely originalism and progressivism (“living constitutionalism”), Vermeule argues for common good constitutionalism, a return to the ius commune pursuit of that which is good for all in accordance with the natural law. While Vermeule’s work is ambitious and his intervention into originalist-progressivist debates welcome, a question remains: will common good constitutionalism be able to overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion? In this paper, I consider the challenges which America’s Enlightenment civil religion poses to common good constitutionalism (and any other attempt to think past the Constitution from within a constitutional framework), concluding that common good constitutionalism, insofar as it is predicated on the pre-existing Constitution and deployed within the American politico-theological domain, cannot overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion to effect the common good.

Keywords

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common good constitutionalism; civil religion; Enlightenment; ius commune

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 673-734

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Jason Morgan

• Reitaku University, Japan

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