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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... formal existence : " ... to form a more perfect Union , estab- lish Justice , insure domestic Tranquility , provide for the common de- fence , promote the general Welfare , and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our ...
... formal instructions , they offered a new Constitution to the Congress and their countrymen , they moti- vated their presumption in a Letter to Congress that appealed not to the imperatives of an abstract reason , but to problems and ...
... formal challenge is witnessing the breakdown of the strict monarchic formula and the intrusion of a formula justifying a sharing of the power by " the people " —at any rate by substantial , tax - paying people . In ancient Egypt and for ...
... formal expectations . None of the three branches1 be- haved as they envisaged . The Electoral College never was an unin- structed gathering of impartial men who after sober discussion selected as Chief Executive the nation's most ...
... formal theory , no agency is given " the last word " in the American political process . A judge can write a Dred Scott or a Pollock decision ; but that cannot forever preserve slavery or block the levying of an income tax . Analogously ...
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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 |