Congress and the American TraditionTransaction Publishers - 363 Seiten Most Americans would probably be surprised to hear that, in 1959, James Burnham, a leading political thinker questioned whether Congress would survive, and whether the Executive Branch of the American government would become a dictatorship. In the last decade, members of Congress have impeached a president, rejected or refused to consider presidential nominees, and appear in the media criticizing the chief executive. Congress does not exactly appear to be at risk of expiring. Regardless of how we perceive Congress today, more than forty years after Congress and the American Tradition was written, Burnham's questions, arguments, and political analysis still have much to tell us about freedom and political order. |
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... Senator McCarthy's investigations of communist influence in the United States . 15 Out of that proposal grew a much broader study , Congress and the Ameri- can Tradition , in which the role of Congressional investigating commit- tees is ...
... Senators , the President , and , of course , the Supreme Court , would be removed somewhat from the winds of popular passions . However , through the elephantiasis of the Execu- tive branch bureaucracy , and through Presidential power ...
... Senator Asher Robbins ' speech in Congress advocating passage of a resolution to acquire the Madison papers . 8. George Washington , Letter to the Governors on disbanding the army , June , 1783 . 9. Boorstin , op . cit . , pp . 68 , 69 ...
... Senator Lehman , Senator Humphrey , Senator Douglas and other liberal members . Nevertheless , on this matter the conservative tendency in Congress has up to now prevailed without much difficulty.11 The electoral college system in the ...
... Senate or Council . The racist and democratic ideologies are more complex , because it is not literally possible for an entire race or people to be the functioning sov- ereign . But each of these , also , has the same tendency toward ...
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The Diffusion of Power | 45 |
Power and Limits | 62 |
Public and Private | 75 |
The Place of Congress | 91 |
The Traditional Balance | 103 |
The Escape of the Treaty Power | 205 |
The Investigatory Power | 221 |
The Attack on Investigations | 236 |
Theoretical Gravediggers | 253 |
The Case Against Congress | 262 |
The Reform of Congress | 271 |
Democracy and Liberty | 281 |
The Logic of Democratism | 290 |
The Fall of Congress | 127 |
The LawMaking Power | 140 |
The Rise of the Fourth Branch | 157 |
The Purse | 169 |
And The Sword | 184 |
The Problem of Treaties | 194 |
Conditions of Liberty | 301 |
What Is a Majority | 311 |
Leader of the Masses Assembly of the People | 317 |
Can Congress Survive? | 333 |