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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... structure and for the individuals living within that structure . ' . " 8 Liberty requires " the inter- play of autonomous social forces " that prevents the rulers from becom- ing merely the " agents for the will of the masses . " " 9 In ...
... structure was built as a pyramid with a single leader at the apex , and that its sta- bility depended on installing an accepted replacement for the dead chief . Delay in finding a successor was bound to lead — and in the event did lead ...
... structure and regular symmetry which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a Constitution planned in his closet or in his imagination ? The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have ...
... structure to the requirements of " a people , spread and spreading over a vast territory , stretching and to stretch almost from the rising to the setting sun , " sole " lords and proprietors of a vast tract of continent , comprehending ...
... structure , whether good or not as conceived rational system , be- comes , is made , good and even the best through time and history . The Constitution is like a man's wife who , though to tell the truth that would be revealed by an ...
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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 |