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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... which the role of Congressional investigating commit- tees is only one small part of the detailed analysis of the history and functioning of Congress and of its changing relationship with the INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION xix.
James Burnham. functioning of Congress and of its changing relationship with the Ex- ecutive branch . Although advertised as a sequel to The Managerial Revo- lution , it also relies heavily on The Machiavellians and , as a critique of ...
... relation between these two qualities , strength and jus- tice ? Does one have priority over the other in defining the " goodness " of a government ? To avoid confusion in the answer , one more distinction must be carefully made . In ...
... relationship between strength and justice in government is more subtle , as we may see if we ask , not what is good or the best gov- ernment , but what government is worst ? Now the worst government is the one that in relation to its ...
... relations , be the means of keeping each other in their proper places .... In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government , which to a certain extent is ad- mitted on all ...
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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 |