The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic RuleLexington Books, 2004 - 162 pages The 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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... important part of the system of checks and balances . The new theory raises a number of questions for the practice of American government : what legal restraint is a popular president subject to in the exercise of his power ? What is ...
... important part of the system of checks and balances . The new theory raises a number of questions for the practice of American government : what legal restraint is a popular president subject to in the exercise of his power ? What is ...
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... important question , whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good govern- ment from reflection and choice , or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and ...
... important question , whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good govern- ment from reflection and choice , or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and ...
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... same causes that today in the post - Cold War world have the potential to split the broader alliance of demo- cratic societies in the war on terror . The misunderstanding of democracy's past might not be so important INTRODUCTION 5.
... same causes that today in the post - Cold War world have the potential to split the broader alliance of demo- cratic societies in the war on terror . The misunderstanding of democracy's past might not be so important INTRODUCTION 5.
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... important if it did not contribute to a potentially dangerous misunderstanding of its present . Failures occur in the putatively inevitable progress of democracy . A new democ- racy disintegrates in ethnic or tribal violence and is ...
... important if it did not contribute to a potentially dangerous misunderstanding of its present . Failures occur in the putatively inevitable progress of democracy . A new democ- racy disintegrates in ethnic or tribal violence and is ...
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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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