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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... bureaucrats and technocrats who actually control the means of production . Burnham's Marxist critique of the New ... bureaucratic state , Thorstein Veblen's The Engineers and the Price System ( 1921 ) , which pointed to the increasing ...
... bureaucracy , does not represent diverse interests and regions . Instead , the Presidency is seen as the agent of the will of the masses , which renders the Presidency susceptible to Caesarism , or democratic despotism . As Burnham ...
... bureaucracy , and through Presidential power grabs insuffi- ciently resisted by Congress , the power center in the federal govern- ment has been steadily shifting to the Executive . Burnham sees in this the great danger of " democratism ...
... bureaucratic government , Congress and the American Tradition is important for what it has to tell us about the subtle and insidious ways in which freedom can be diminished , if not lost . Michael Henry St. John's University New York ...
... bureaucracy of wise men ( priests or mandarins ) shared sov- ereignty with hereditary despots , a division which no single - principled ideology or political formula could encompass . I do not want to suggest too close a parallel ...
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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 |