The founding fathers v. the people : paradoxes of American democracy /

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As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the world's greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on which this democracy was establi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: King, Anthony, 1934-2017
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Sujets:
Democracy > United States.
Separation of powers > United States.
Constitutional history > United States.
Séparation des pouvoirs > États-Unis.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Constitutional history
Democracy
Politics and government
Separation of powers
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Philosophie.
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • An assortment of puzzles
  • Who-and what-were "the people"?
  • The people in the house of power
  • The exaltation of the people
  • The people move upstairs
  • Two tectonic plates, two nostalgias
  • An assortment of solutions
  • Democracy in America.

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