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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... whole Burnham did not concern himself with either a moral or a metaphysical evaluation of the transfer of power to a managerial elite but only with the weight of the evidence that supported his theory . Never an ideologist , Burnham did ...
... whole people . As the embodiment of the will of the whole people , the leader claims an unlimited authority , and considers all intermediary political bodies , such as parliaments or local govern- ments , to be wholly dependent on the ...
... whole social 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 ...
... whole story [ of Romulus and Remus ] ... is artificial and shows strong Greek influence . The birth , exposure , rescue , and subsequent adventures of the twins are a Greek tale of familiar type . Mars and his sacred beast , the wolf ...
... whole , that America had institutions or a culture supe- rior to that of the British . Rather their position , often misrepresented and sometimes simply forgotten , was that the British by their treatment of the American colonies were ...
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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 |