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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... Democracy and Liberty , 281 XXII . The Logic of Democratism , 290 XXIII . Conditions of Liberty , 301 XXIV . What Is a Majority ?, 311 XXV . Leader of the Masses , Assembly of the People , 317 XXVI . Can Congress Survive ?, 333 ...
... democracy , on the whole Burnham did not concern himself with either a moral or a metaphysical evaluation of the transfer of power to a managerial elite but only with the weight of the evidence that supported his theory . Never an ...
... democracy , refurbished laissez - faire or the inverted , cut - rate Bolshevism called ' fascism . ' Through the Machiavellians I began to understand more thoroughly what I had long felt : that only by renouncing all ideology can we ...
... democracy , educational democracy , and democracy in the treatment of the sexes " and that excessive emphasis on " Bill - of - Rights democracy " leads to " rugged individualism , exploitation , impractical emphasis on States ' rights ...
... democracy defined as liberty . They know that the degree of liberty present within a society is a fact of the greatest consequence for the character of the whole social structure and for the individuals living within that structure ...
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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 |