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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... institutions and practices that will establish a government with the right amount of power for maximizing freedom and justice in a particular society . Only concrete experience embodied in a tradition can do this . In fact , we could ...
... institutions , so that the Senators , the President , and , of course , the Supreme Court , would be removed somewhat from the winds of popular passions . However , through the elephantiasis of the Execu- tive branch bureaucracy , and ...
... institution , maintenance , and administration of gov- ernment , is to secure the existence of the body - politic , to protect it , and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity ...
... institutions that could be changed , then the dilemma would collapse . The governors might be possessed of any amount of strength , unlimited strength , so that the common defense and domestic tranquillity would be unshakably guaranteed ...
... institutions and able governors . To gain and secure these is the political task of reasonable men , even when they know that these gained are not enough . Although the Fathers recognized the partly non - rational basis of both the ...
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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 |