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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... rule of Stalin , nonetheless a genuine workers ' state that deserved the support of all Marxists . The ideologist Trotsky insisted that it was . Burnham the realist saw clearly that it was not . After abandoning Trotskyism , Burnham ...
... and the American Tradi- tion that , within the American government , power is moving from the Legislative to the Executive Branch . Although he did suggest that rule by a managerial class xiv INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION.
James Burnham. Although he did suggest that rule by a managerial class would be compatible with some degree of democracy , on the whole Burnham did not concern himself with either a moral or a metaphysical evaluation of the transfer of ...
... rule of law , which he calls " constitutional gov- ernment , " and he sees no necessary connection between them . From the first part of his argument Burnham distills two groups of propositions that belong to what he calls the liberal ...
... rules for their own happiness ? Or is the disposition to imposture so prevalent in men of experience that their private views of ambition and avarice can be accomplished only by art1fice ? s Or , rephrased as statement instead 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 |