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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... Tradition , 16 III . The Paradox of Sovereignty , 34 IV . The Diffusion of Power , 45 V. Power and Limits , 62 VI . Public and Private , 75 VII . The Place of Congress , 91 VIII . The Traditional Balance , 103 PART TWO : The Present ...
... tradition of British institutions . The argument ... was not , on the whole , that America had institutions or a culture supe- rior to that of the British . Rather their position , often misrepresented and sometimes simply forgotten ...
... tradition of the several colonies , evolved without sharp leap into sovereign states , eight of which had lately crystallized their political ways into constitutions . In one or another of these early state charters may be found many of ...
James Burnham. ( c ) a respect for tradition , for established institutions and traditional modes of conduct , together with a consequent reluctance to initiate quick and deep alterations in traditional forms , and an effort to restrict ...
... traditions . The two contrasting attitudes toward tradition could readily be illus- trated by a hundred other instances , drawn not only from major issues of government and social policy , but from religion , morality , family and ...
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34 | |
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 |