The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic RuleThe American Constitution held out the hope that ordinary people were capable of deciding their own fates, and in doing so it immeasurably elevated the dignity of common people. The organization and interplay of the parts that comprise the whole American government exist to provide people the opportunity to govern themselves and, at the same time, reveal the limits of democratic self-rule. The forgetting of these limits is not only destructive to the constitution but the nation as a whole. |
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... framers established the Electoral College precisely to preclude the President's direct dependence on the people the very situation they were pointing to as justifying Clinton's viii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS continuation in office ...
... framers established the Electoral College precisely to preclude the President's direct dependence on the people the very situation they were pointing to as justifying Clinton's viii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS continuation in office ...
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... framers believed , would make the President both too weak and too strong for stable democratic government : it would inhibit him from acting decisively , when necessary , for the people's interests but against their passions ; at the ...
... framers believed , would make the President both too weak and too strong for stable democratic government : it would inhibit him from acting decisively , when necessary , for the people's interests but against their passions ; at the ...
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... framers , can never be ascertained . Each generation , they claimed , defines the Constitution for itself , in light of its own needs and values . This argument justifies the federal courts in making policy , bypassing Congress and the ...
... framers , can never be ascertained . Each generation , they claimed , defines the Constitution for itself , in light of its own needs and values . This argument justifies the federal courts in making policy , bypassing Congress and the ...
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... framers of the Ameri- can Constitution , who were close students of history and political philosophy . James Madison summarized the historical record in the observation that the an- cient democracies were " as short in their lives " as ...
... framers of the Ameri- can Constitution , who were close students of history and political philosophy . James Madison summarized the historical record in the observation that the an- cient democracies were " as short in their lives " as ...
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... framers . They set out to accomplish something that not only had never been done before , but also that the most eminent thinkers had claimed could never be done : establish a stable and effective democracy.13 The framers believed that ...
... framers . They set out to accomplish something that not only had never been done before , but also that the most eminent thinkers had claimed could never be done : establish a stable and effective democracy.13 The framers believed that ...
Contents
James Madisons Constitution of Freedom | 9 |
Abraham Lincolns New Birth of Freedom | 25 |
Woodrow Wilsons Progressive Constitution | 50 |
Franklin Roosevelt the Great Depression and the Rise of InterestGroup Government | 67 |
Congress Increased Power and Institutional Weakness | 79 |
Presidential Leadership and the Two Publics | 98 |
The Modern Judiciary and Palliative Government Still the Least Dangerous Branch? | 112 |
Deconstitutionalization and American Foreign Policy | 126 |
National Performance Review and Madisonian Constitutionalism The Persistence of Wilsonian Administrative Thought | 136 |
Conclusion | 149 |
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