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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... Limits , 62 VI . Public and Private , 75 VII . The Place of Congress , 91 VIII . The Traditional Balance , 103 PART TWO : The Present Position of Congress IX . The Fall of Congress , 127 X. The Law - Making Power , 140 XI . The Rise of ...
... limit his signature phrase , ' the struggle for the world ' the title of his 1947 book on the Cold War — to the Cold War alone .... [ F ] rom the 1930s to the 1970s , he ... pointed to a far - flung duel between ideologues and realists ...
... limit because they will be resisted by others who are jealously protecting their own power . Ac- cordingly they regarded the design of Congress , with all of its inter- nally shifting alliances and conflicts of interest as the main ...
... limits ) to the rule of another — to government . But suppose that I ask myself : why should I do so ? why should I submit to the rule of another ? what justifies his rule ? To these questions there are no objectively convincing answers ...
... limit of totalitarianism has been closely ap- proached by Nazism and communism . There is still some dispute as to whether the same effects must follow from the same causes : whether the indefinite extension of the internal power 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 |