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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... means of which they recover their first reputation and grandeur . And be- cause in process of time that goodness corrupts , the body must of necessity die , unless something intervenes that reduces it to its first principles . NICCOLO ...
... means of production . Burnham's Marxist critique of the New Deal as an attempt to preserve a dying capitalist system against the inevitable victory of socialism modulates here to the argument that " The New Deal is a phase of the ...
... mean a concern with the interests and well - being not of abstract Man or Man- kind but of existential man , historical man , or actual men as they actu- ally exist in space and time . " 17 The genius of the American Constitution ...
... means of satisfying their interests . This inevitably pro- duces a government and a society that are imperfect ... mean- ings , the will of the people , which he calls democracy ( or sometimes " democratism " ) , and the rule of law ...
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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 |