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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... 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 be.
... majority tyrannizing over the minority . To prevent this , they designed a government in which power , or sovereignty , is greatly diffused , so that those who hold some of the power cannot increase it beyond a certain limit because ...
... majority of a people . And yet that does not mean that political formulas are mere quack- eries aptly invented to trick the masses into obedience . Anyone who viewed them in that light would fall into grave error . The truth is that ...
... majority party on the basis of seniority . Although some rational ar- guments can be offered in favor of this practice , they are on the whole less convincing — judged from a purely rational point of view — than the many arguments that ...
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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 |