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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... human nature and the human condition — was a mixed regime that combined democracy , oligarchy , and aristocracy , sharing power among the many poor , the few rich , and the even fewer well - bred . 3 The early modern political ...
... human nature and the human condition — was a mixed regime that combined democracy , oligarchy , and aristocracy , sharing power among the many poor , the few rich , and the even fewer well - bred . 3 The early modern political ...
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... human slavery as its raison d'etre might have become a military and ideological adversary of democracy . Britain and France could easily have lost World War I before the intervention of the United States tipped the balance in their ...
... human slavery as its raison d'etre might have become a military and ideological adversary of democracy . Britain and France could easily have lost World War I before the intervention of the United States tipped the balance in their ...
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... human prob- lem . Nothing seems to be Impossible . Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the sense of boundless possibility when he told the American people , in his first inaugural address , that " the only thing we have to fear is fear ...
... human prob- lem . Nothing seems to be Impossible . Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the sense of boundless possibility when he told the American people , in his first inaugural address , that " the only thing we have to fear is fear ...
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... human affairs that " as the wise man has sovereign right to do all that reason dictates , or to live according to reason , so also the ignorant and foolish man has sovereign right to do all that desire dictates , or to live according to ...
... human affairs that " as the wise man has sovereign right to do all that reason dictates , or to live according to reason , so also the ignorant and foolish man has sovereign right to do all that desire dictates , or to live according to ...
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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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About the Authors | |
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