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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... theory , but is nonscientific and even antiscientific . It is the expression of hopes , wishes , fears , ideals , not a hypothesis about events — though ideologies are often thought by those who hold them to be scientific theories ...
... theory , no promises , no morality , no amount of good will , no religion will restrain power .... Only power restrains power . That restraining power is ex- pressed in the existence and activity of opposition . " 5 Since unchecked ...
... theory that involved metaphysics . He regarded such theories as ideologies that existed to protect the power and interests of the ruling class — in Plato's case , the Philosopher - Kings . Burnham's preference would have been the demo ...
... theory to explain why some governments , though very different from each other , do well , whereas others , though closely similar , do badly . When you drop scientist ideology , it becomes clear that you cannot explain the success of ...
... theory . In historical fact we find that groups which do not accept a principle of legitimacy derived from tradition , custom or faith always undergo a crisis in trying to solve the problem of succession , no matter how rational their ...
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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 |