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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... Social Crisis of Our Time , Roepke Tensions of Order and Freedom , Menczer The Vision of Richard Weaver , Scotchie The Voegelinian Revolution , Sandoz We the People , McDonald and the James Burnham Congress American Tradition ...
... social dissolution , the latter , personal freedom and social order . In short , the theme of a ' struggle for the world , ' whether between communists and anti - communists or some other set xi Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
... social order , for truth and reality , against the ideological forces of tyranny , dissolution , and falsehood . Although Burnham was more thinker than political activist his intellectual labors were themselves an intense political ...
... social questions . Like many intellectuals in the 1930s he was drawn first to Leftist politics , partly through the influence of the New York University philosophy professor Sidney Hook , who at the time was a Marxist and who had become ...
... social ( economic and political ) institutions " with parallel changes in the society's cultural institunions and Weltanschauung , and " a change in the group of men which holds the top positions , which controls the greater part 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 |