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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... expression of hopes , wishes , fears , ideals , not a hypothesis about events — though ideologies are often thought by those who hold them to be scientific theories . " Evolution and physics are science , but the doctrines or beliefs ...
... expressed , they were after- wards confirmed by his oracle at Delphos . Among the Romans Numa was indebted for those laws which procured the prosperity of his coun- try to his conversations with [ the fountain nymph ] Egeria .... Woden ...
... expression of the will of a people , or even of the will of the majority of a people . And yet that does not mean that political formulas are mere quack- eries aptly invented to trick the masses into obedience . Anyone who viewed them ...
... expressed . Rousseau's serene anarchic savages , on whom the chains of society have not yet been fastened , live in a Golden Age that Rousseau well knew to be outside of history . The anarchic Paradise of Adam and Eve was also , and ...
... expressed as a dilemma . A good government must be both strong and just . But any government must be either too strong for justice to be preserved , or not strong enough to survive . Therefore it is impossible that a good 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 |