Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century AmericaOxford University Press, 15 de ago. de 2002 - 304 páginas Rarely does scholarship anticipate the most dramatic events of the moment. In this timely work Gary Hart does just that, arguing for the restoration of republican virtues and for homeland security as an important first step. The American democratic republic has from its founding been a paradoxical success. Simultaneously attached to state and national power, citizens' rights and citizens' duties, American democracy has uniquely turned its reliance on consent from the governed into a powerful governing of the consenting. In a remarkable political feat, America's founders combined mixed government, the language of popular sovereignty and a self-conscious emphasis on checks and balances to forge a republic that has weathered the test of time. The complex realities of the twenty-first century, however, have fundamentally challenged the underpinnings of this enduring American experiment, repeatedly exposing the tensions at the heart of America's mixed system of government. What then is the nature of an American republic in an age of democracy? How can the democratic values of social justice and equality be balanced with republican values of civic duty and popular sovereignty? Bringing to light a long-neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy--the "ward republic"--Gary Hart here offers a wholly original blueprint for republican restoration in which every citizen can participate democratically in the governing of his or her own life. Of crucial relevance for contemporary society, including its startlingly prescient plan for homeland security, Restoration of the Republic provides original insights into issues of national urgency as well as the timeless questions that bedevil the American democratic experiment. |
Conteúdo
| 3 | |
Economics Politics and Society | 25 |
2 Is America Still a Republic? Sovereignty Corruption Civic Virtue and Liberty | 63 |
3 Jeffersonian Republicanism and the Restoration of the Republic | 81 |
4 The Jeffersonian Republic in the Current Age | 163 |
Conclusion | 227 |
Notes | 239 |
Selected Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 275 |
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