Weldemariam is a political liberal in the Rawlsian sense of the term, but he owes his political liberalism more to Joshua Cohen, Bruce Ackerman and Martha Nussbaum than to John Rawls.
Bruce Ackerman, The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2005.
Scholars such as Bruce Ackerman have pointed to the Court's decision in Stuart v. Laird as part of the opposition Federalist Court's accommodation of the new Jeffersonian political regime.
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