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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... Interest - Group Government 67 Chapter 5 Congress : Increased Power and 79 Institutional Weakness Chapter 6 Presidential Leadership and the 98 Two Publics Chapter 7 The Modern Judiciary and Palliative Government : Still the " Least ...
... Interest - Group Government 67 Chapter 5 Congress : Increased Power and 79 Institutional Weakness Chapter 6 Presidential Leadership and the 98 Two Publics Chapter 7 The Modern Judiciary and Palliative Government : Still the " Least ...
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... interests but against their passions ; at the same time , it would give him a dangerous degree of influence over the people . The solution to this problem was the Electoral College and other constitutional forms , which created a ...
... interests but against their passions ; at the same time , it would give him a dangerous degree of influence over the people . The solution to this problem was the Electoral College and other constitutional forms , which created a ...
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... interests , it allowed the few individuals who were endowed by nature with the ability and the disposition to pursue phi- losophy . He was also painfully aware , of course , that democratic Athens had put his teacher Socrates to death ...
... interests , it allowed the few individuals who were endowed by nature with the ability and the disposition to pursue phi- losophy . He was also painfully aware , of course , that democratic Athens had put his teacher Socrates to death ...
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... interests . " Thomas Hobbes argued that democracy was inferior to monarchy , and perhaps also to aristocracy . The ... interest of the ruler to the public interest of the state . No king could be " rich , nor glorious , nor secure ...
... interests . " Thomas Hobbes argued that democracy was inferior to monarchy , and perhaps also to aristocracy . The ... interest of the ruler to the public interest of the state . No king could be " rich , nor glorious , nor secure ...
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... interests of Athens and become a virtual traitor to his cause . The problems of democracy were well known to the framers of the Ameri- can Constitution , who were close students of history and political philosophy . James Madison ...
... interests of Athens and become a virtual traitor to his cause . The problems of democracy were well known to the framers of the Ameri- can Constitution , who were close students of history and political philosophy . James Madison ...
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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