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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... Natural Law , d'Entrèves On Divorce , de Bonald Orestes Brownson , Kirk The Phantom Public , Lippmann Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal : Collected Essays , Wilson Politics of the Center , Starzinger Regionalism and Nationalism ...
... nature , " whereas the corresponding conservative beliefs are " that government involves a non- rational factor " and " that human nature is limited and corrupt . " While there is abundant evidence for the conservative position , the ...
... nature of the case cannot exist in a group that contains more than three or four human beings . ) The universality of this insight is really attested by the scientific writers on society as much as by the ancients . Without exception ...
... Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body , and mind ; as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body , or of quicker mind than another ; yet when all is reckoned together , the difference ...
... nature ; and this need , so uni- versally felt , of governing and knowing that one is governed not on the basis of mere material or intellectual force , but on the basis of moral principle , has beyond any doubt a practical and real ...
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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 |