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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... particular , and to the advancing of the proletarian revolution . The break with Trotsky finally came in 1939 over the question of whether the Soviet Union was , despite the despotic rule of Stalin , nonetheless a genuine workers ...
... particular conservative creed or rootedness in the Classical tradition . Almost thirty years later , in a National Review essay called " Selective , Yes . Humanism , Maybe , " Burnham wrote that he was one of the conservatives who ...
... particular . His Machiavellianism is a distinctly anti - liberal position . " 14 Although Burnham planned to write another book on communism , Henry Regnery proposed that Burnham write a book on Congressional investigating committees as ...
... particular society . Only concrete experience embodied in a tradition can do this . In fact , we could say that Burnham is pointing to a kind of struggle for power between abstract reason and " the ineluctable con- creteness of ...
... , with an Introduc- tion by Arthur Livingston , translated by Hannah D. Kahn ( New York : McGraw - Hill , 1939 ) , p . 71 . ever about this particular government here and now , nor 8 THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF 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 |