The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing Economic Foundations Of American Democracy William E Forbath Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία

“Eminently Readable And Anybody Who Cares About The Future Of American Democracy In These Perilous Times Can Only Hope That It Will Be Widely Read Carefully Considered ”—James Pope Washington Post“Fishkin Forbath’s Accessible Work Serves As Both History Lesson Political Playbook Offering Left An Underutilized—And Perhaps Counterintuitive—Tool Present-Day Fight Against Social Economic Injustice: Constitution ”—Benjamin Morse Jacobin“Aims To Recover Constitution’s Pivotal Role Shaping Claims Justice Equality…In Engaging Imaginative Prose Makes Even Present Court’s Capture By Ideological Right A Compelling Platform For Revived Social-Democratic Constitutional Politics ”—New Republicoligarchy Is Threat Republic When Too Much Power Concentrated Few Hands We Risk Losing “Republican Form Government” Requires Today Courts Enforce If Had Almost Nothing Say This But Revolutionary Retelling Shows Commitment Prevent Oligarchy Once Stood At Center Robust Tradition Thought Joseph Fishkin William Forbath Demonstrate Reformers Legislators Judges Working “Democracy-Of-Opportunity” Understood Imposes Duty On Legislatures Thwart Promote Broad Distribution Wealth Ideas Led Jacksonians Special Privileges Populists Try Break Up Monopoly Progressives Battle Union Enter New Gilded Age Progressive Lies Dormant Anti-Oligarchy Begins Recovering Exploring Its Profound Implications Our Deeply Unequal Society Badly Damaged Σελίδες: 640 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0710 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm