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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... Liberalism , social 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 ...
... liberalism as an ideology dangerous to free- dom . In a relatively lengthy National Review essay called " Notes on Au ... liberal critics of Senator McCarthy's investigations of communist influence in the United States . 15 Out of that ...
... liberalism , serves as an introduction to Suicide of the West.19 The changes that Burnham saw in American government and society were , he be- lieved , integral to the social revolution going on throughout the West- ern world . One of ...
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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 |