The anti-oligarchy constitution: reconstructing the economic foundations of American democracy
"Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the 'republican form of government' the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say about t...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
Harvard University Press
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the 'republican form of government' the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say about this threat. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought. The authors demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this 'democracy-of-opportunity' tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. But today, as we enter a new Gilded Age, this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. This book begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy"-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 632 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780674980624 |
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| spelling | Fishkin, Joseph Verfasser (DE-588)1050350979 aut The anti-oligarchy constitution reconstructing the economic foundations of American democracy Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press 2022 632 Seiten 25 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Constitution-making and the political economy of self-rule in the early republic -- Clashing constitutional political economies in antebellum America -- The second founding: a brief union of three precepts -- Constitutional class struggle in the Gilded Age -- Progressive constitutional ferment in the new century -- The New Deal "democracy of opportunity" -- Constitutional counter-revolution and the legacies of a truncated New Deal -- The Great Society and the great forgetting -- Building a democracy of opportunity today "Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the 'republican form of government' the Constitution requires. Today, courts enforce the Constitution as if it had almost nothing to say about this threat. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought. The authors demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this 'democracy-of-opportunity' tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. But today, as we enter a new Gilded Age, this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. This book begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy"-- United States / Constitution Oligarchy / United States / History Law / Economic aspects / United States Democracy / Economic aspects / United States United States / Economic policy Constitution (United States) Democracy / Economic aspects Economic policy Law / Economic aspects Oligarchy United States History Forbath, William E. 1952- Verfasser (DE-588)1254169202 aut |
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