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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... , 290 XXIII . Conditions of Liberty , 301 XXIV . What Is a Majority ?, 311 XXV . Leader of the Masses , Assembly of the People , 317 XXVI . Can Congress Survive ?, 333 INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION Most Americans would probably ...
... assembly of men , charged with a great and arduous trust , who were more pure in their motives , or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them , than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787 , to the ...
... Assembly , groping as it were in the dark to find political truth , and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us , how has it happened , Sir , that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights ...
... assembly is taken to express the will of the race or people , and acts as the operative sovereign . A division of sovereignty in practice is inconsistent with the reign of a single ideology in theory , although this inconsistency may ...
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Inhalt
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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 |