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Author: Ruben Alvarado Publisher: Pantocrator Press ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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The relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke’s Two Treatises on Civil Government has been debated for some time, and the consensus is that Locke’s theory constitutes the further development of Calvinist theory. But upon closer analysis, that conclusion proves entirely flawed. Calvinism proves to be worlds apart from the political philosophy of John Locke. It proves to be the mature fruit of the medieval “two swords” form of government, in which church and state share public power, rather than an early stage on the road to the dissociation of church and state, a road which Locke put us firmly upon with his own formulation of political power. Indeed, upon closer inspection Calvinism proves to be the product of a thousand-year tradition of Western political thought commencing with Augustine and moving through the Carolingian Renaissance and the Papal Revolution. That history is rediscovered and outlined in this book, as the preliminary means for recovering the true meaning of political Calvinism and its utter discontinuity with the modernism that commenced with Locke’s paradigm. It also helps disabuse us of the notion that history is linear, and that progress is straightforward. Rather, it helps us to understand the deformational period of history in which we live, and the need for a return to a confessional understanding of law, the state, and constitutionalism.
Author: Ruben Alvarado Publisher: Pantocrator Press ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
The relationship between Calvinist political theory and John Locke’s Two Treatises on Civil Government has been debated for some time, and the consensus is that Locke’s theory constitutes the further development of Calvinist theory. But upon closer analysis, that conclusion proves entirely flawed. Calvinism proves to be worlds apart from the political philosophy of John Locke. It proves to be the mature fruit of the medieval “two swords” form of government, in which church and state share public power, rather than an early stage on the road to the dissociation of church and state, a road which Locke put us firmly upon with his own formulation of political power. Indeed, upon closer inspection Calvinism proves to be the product of a thousand-year tradition of Western political thought commencing with Augustine and moving through the Carolingian Renaissance and the Papal Revolution. That history is rediscovered and outlined in this book, as the preliminary means for recovering the true meaning of political Calvinism and its utter discontinuity with the modernism that commenced with Locke’s paradigm. It also helps disabuse us of the notion that history is linear, and that progress is straightforward. Rather, it helps us to understand the deformational period of history in which we live, and the need for a return to a confessional understanding of law, the state, and constitutionalism.
Author: John H. Aldrich Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226012751 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in resurgence or decline and undertakes a wholesale reexamination of the foundations of the American party system. Surveying critical episodes in the development of American political parties—from their formation in the 1790s to the Civil War—Aldrich shows how they serve to combat three fundamental problems of democracy: how to regulate the number of people seeking public office, how to mobilize voters, and how to achieve and maintain the majorities needed to accomplish goals once in office. Aldrich brings this innovative account up to the present by looking at the profound changes in the character of political parties since World War II, especially in light of ongoing contemporary transformations, including the rise of the Republican Party in the South, and what those changes accomplish, such as the Obama Health Care plan. Finally, Why Parties? A Second Look offers a fuller consideration of party systems in general, especially the two-party system in the United States, and explains why this system is necessary for effective democracy.
Author: Michael F. Holt Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199830894 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1298
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Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.
Author: William R. Everdell Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226224824 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 426
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Written in clear, lively prose, The End of Kings traces the history of republican governments and the key figures that are united by the simple republican maxim: No man shall rule alone. Breathtaking in its scope, Everdell's book moves from the Hebrew Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus's Rome to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and the Watergate proceedings during which Nixon resigned. Along the way, he carefully builds a definition of "republic" which distinguishes democratic republics from aristocratic ones for both history and political science. In a new foreword, Everdell addresses the impeachment trial of President Clinton and argues that impeachment was never meant to punish private crimes. Ultimately, Everdell's brilliant analysis helps us understand how examining the past can shed light on the present. "[An] energetic, aphoristic, wide-ranging book."—Marcus Cunliffe, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious in conception and presented in a clear and sprightly prose. . . . [This] excellent study . . . is the best statement of the republican faith since Alphonse Aulard's essays almost a century ago." —Choice "A book which ought to be in the hand of every American who agrees with Benjamin Franklin that the Founding Fathers gave us a Republic and hoped that we would be able to keep it."-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Author: Edwin Charles Rozwenc Publisher: New York, New York, U.P ISBN: Category : Democracy Languages : en Pages : 0
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"AD1." Bibliography: p. [363]-365. The progress of the United States in population and wealth / George Tucker -- Agriculture, mechanics, and manufactures : on these depends the prosperity of our nation -- What causes almost all Americans to follow industrial callings / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Speculations in land, railroads, and banks / Michel Chevalier -- "There are certain causes which have acted with peculiar energy in our generation ..." / Daniel Webster -- Machinery, for machine making -- The influence of the trading spirit on the social and moral life in America / The American Whig Review -- The absorbing desire for gain : two scenes / James Fenimore Cooper -- Napoleon, or the man of the world / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The course of civilization : allegory and reality -- Of honor in the United States and in democratic communities / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The middle classes / Michel Chevalier -- The higher circles and the lower circles -- The artificial inequality of wealth / William M. Gouge --Resolutions on the social, civil, and intellectual condition of the laboring classes / The National Trades' Union -- On social station / James Fenimore Cooper -- Envy and debt : two stories / McGuffey's Readers -- The honest school boy rewarded -- The necessity of education in a republican government / Horace Mann -- Fighting and throwing stones -- "There seemed to be a general union of ministerial influence against us." / Charles Grandison Finney -- "There is and always has been ... a conflict between labor and capital." / John C. Calhoun -- New England reformers / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Symptoms of revolution / Michel Chevalier -- Social ferment -- A veto, a proclamation, and a protest / Andrew Jackson -- Monopolies and corporations / William Leggett -- The decision of the Supreme Court in the Charles River Bridge case / Roger B. Taney -- Divorce of bank and state / Thomas Hart Benton -- "He has collected and embodied the wishes of the people ..." / William M. Holland --"Great men always wear the imprints of the times ..." / Francis J. Grund -- David Crockett enters politics / Colonel David Crockett -- "We have taught them how to conquer us!" / The Democratic Review -- Of the relation between public associations and the newspapers / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Jacksonian political caricature -- The office of the people in art, government, and religion / George Bancroft -- The democratic principle / The Democratic Review -- The laboring classes / Orestes A. Brownson -- "The whigs of 1840 stand ... where the whigs of the revolution were ..." / Henry Clay -- "This is a country of self-made men ..." / Calvin Colton -- Contrasting styles and values.
Author: Robert Allen Rutland Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 9780826210906 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 298
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The book is a lucid and fast-paced overview of the Republican party from its beginnings in the 1850s through the 1994 congressional elections, which saw the Democratic domination of the House and Senate come to an abrupt end.
Author: Calvin Trillin Publisher: Random House Incorporated ISBN: 0812993683 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 177
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Presents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.
Author: Ruben Alvarado
Author: Ruben Alvarado
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Author: John H. Aldrich
Author: Michael F. Holt
Author: Ralph C. Hancock
Author: William R. Everdell
Author: Edwin Charles Rozwenc
Author: Robert Allen Rutland
Author: Calvin Trillin
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