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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... acceptance of great masses of people are an indispens- able verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together .... [ T ] hey ordinarily work to serve and advance the interests of some particu- lar social group or ...
... acceptance of concrete reality . Many con- servatives perceive this reality as necessarily grounded in transcen- dence , but others , such as Burnham , see a more restricted reality . Burnham did not consider the transcendent , but ...
... when one of them is accepted by the community , for government to be something other than mere brute force . 5. Thomas Hobbes , Leviathan . But why should I accept the hereditary or democratic or THE MIRACLE OF GOVERNMENT 7.
... accepted replacement for the dead chief . Delay in finding a successor was bound to lead — and in the event did lead — to mounting conflicts and a weakening of the entire Soviet system . The need for a successor and the damaging ...
... acceptance by habit , tradition or faith of a principle which completes the justification for government , government dissolves , or falls back wholly on force — which is itself , of course , non - rational . 3 I have been referring ...
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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 |