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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... courses of- fered at the time , perhaps because philosophy appealed to his passion for constantly examining and debating ideas . For a year he studied with Philip Wheelwright and eventually came to share Wheelwright's leaning toward ...
... course , by passions rather than by reason . Uniformity of opinion and feeling tends to seek representation in a dictatorial demagogue , a phenom- enon he calls " Bonapartism , " or , later , " Caesarism . " In 1943 Burnham saw this ...
... course , an arena for the struggle for power among more than five hundred diverse individuals who represent fifty distinctive states and many more regions within states . All parts of the society — every region and interest group — are ...
... course , this means that government should be dictatorial , if not totalitarian , because concrete human beings are stubbornly irrational . However , a progressive gov- ernment cannot be obviously dictatorial , so modern liberalism ...
... course . Let us imitate this prudence ; and be- fore we float farther on the waves of this debate , refer to the point from which we departed , that we may , at least , conjecture where we now are . Daniel Webster , Reply to Hayne I THE ...
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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 |