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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... citizens . Another argu- ment is that successful government and social order are not the prod- uct of abstract reasoning . No abstract rational formula can ever pre- scribe the institutions and practices that will establish a government ...
... citizens is absolutely weak or abso- lutely strong , no - government or all - government : that is , an anarchic or a totalitarian society . The well - being of the organism is destroyed by either starvation or gluttony . The evil of ...
... citizens to pursue their well - being exempt from despotic oppression . " The plan now to be formed , " George Mason told the Convention on June 11 , " will certainly be defective , as the Confederation has been found on trial to be ...
... Citizen dealt , in De Tocqueville's words , with " the citizen in the abstract , independent of particular social organiza- tions , " with " the general rights and duties of mankind , " divested " of all that was peculiar to one race or ...
... citizens , and though the nature of the governors would lead them to wish to do so , liberty and justice would be ... citizen . The Senate was never a non - partisan council of non - partisan wise men vigilantly checking the passions of ...
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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 |