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Chargement... An Argument Open to All: Reading "The Federalist" in the 21st Centurypar Sanford Levinson
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From one of America's most distinguished constitutional scholars, an intriguing exploration of America's most famous political tract and its relevance to today's politics In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America's most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us understand the original intent of the framers of the Constitution, Levinson examines each essay for the political wisdom it can offer us today. In eighty-five short essays, each keyed to a different essay in The Federalist, he considers such questions as whether present generations can rethink their constitutional arrangements; how much effort we should exert to preserve America's traditional culture; and whether The Federalist's arguments even suggest the desirability of world government. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Levinson is an advocate for a new constitutional convention and a new constitution freeing us from the chronic mis-representation of the Senate and the Electoral College—and he was before 2016, too. He points out that taking Publius seriously would mean being open to serious upheavals in governmental structure, which was after all what Publius sought and achieved. (Among other things, each congressional district in 1789 had a voting population of around 20,000; today each district has roughly 400,000 voters.) “[W]e must ask ourselves if it was only Publius’s generation that had a duty to improve the institutions of American governance in order to perpetuate its central goals …. [W]e must be willing to honor their example not by mindless adherence to their own decisions of 1787, but by standing in their shoes (or on their shoulders) and asking what improvements are necessary in our own time.” ( )