Congress and the American TraditionTransaction Publishers - 363 páginas 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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... Wilson ) ; Simon & Schuster , Inc. ( Grand Inquest , by Telford Taylor ) ; Time , Inc. ( Mem- oirs , by Harry S. Truman , published by Doubleday & Co. ) ; Yale Univer- sity Press ( The Spending Power , by Lucius Wilmerding , Jr ...
... Wilson at Philadelphia the year following , " have been the result of force , of fraud , and of accident . After a period of six thousand years have elapsed since the creation , the United States exhibit to the world the first instance ...
... Wilson , who sometimes allowed himself to be victimized by democratist ideology — would have concurred . And this attitude was curious in these men , who were leaders of a new nation in a new land , only a few years out of a successful ...
... dated more correctly from Woodrow Wilson's than from Franklin Roosevelt's administration . But the line must be drawn some- where . A change does not necessarily violate tradition . There are 32 THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
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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 |