Principles of The American Republic: An Essay on American Government (Paperback or Softback)

Schwartz, Dan

ISBN 10: 0615388434 / ISBN 13: 9780615388434

Editore: Sturdy Oak Press 2/20/2012, 2012

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Principles of The American Republic: An Essay on American Government.

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• Titolo: Principles of The American Republic: An Essay on American Government (Paperback or Softback)
• Editore: Sturdy Oak Press 2/20/2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0615388434
• ISBN 13: 9780615388434
• Rilegatura: Paperback or Softback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 0,32 libbre
• Tipo di libro: Book

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The men who wrote the Constitution designed a government aimed at resolving divergentsectional and commercial interests. In the process, they created institutions that served to balance two competing forces in Americanlife: liberty and equality. To achieve this end, the founding fathers incorporated 15 principles into the Constitution, their blueprint for American government and society. These principles re-flect how political authority should be allocated, how the economy should be organized, how the legal system should operate, and howAmerican society should function. In turn, the Framers hoped these principles would frame the policies on which government action and laws would unfold.This essay describes that structure: striking a balance between liberty and equality; identifying the principles and their evolution through our nation's history; and, outlining the policies that translate these principles into action.If we are unhappy with the government we have today, it is because we have deviated from these principles. If we don’t ask for the governmentwe want, we will get the government we deserve. If it is to change,and it will change, there must be individuals willing to articulate and implement what that requires. Like the Marines, America is waitingfor good men—and women—to step forward.

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Dan Schwartz’s Principles of the American Republic provides an insightful description of the principles that motivated the framers as they drafted the United States Constitution and an extraordinarily astute analysis of the ways in which those principles have been tested—and sometimes ignored—over the course of the 224 years since the Constitution was created.

Schwartz’s book is not only an outstanding work of history, but also a helpful prescription for how Americans—political leaders and ordinary citizens alike—can continue to move forward toward that “more perfect union” that the Founding Fathers envisioned.
—Dr. Richard R. Beeman
John Welsh Centennial Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania and Author, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution

Dan Schwartz has written a concise, informed and readable primer on the basic principles that guide American politics and government. He writes eloquently, yet plainly, on the fundamental pillars of the American ideal: consent of the governed, liberty, equality, individual rights and freedom. The text is non-doctrinaire and should challenge those who take dogmatic positions to fully consider the wisdom of the Founders who crafted the basic document of America, the US Constitution.
—Dr. Erik Herzik,
Chair, Department of Politics, University of Nevada-Reno

I think that the book could be a very valuable introduction to the themes and principles that inform the Constitution itself—especially for non-specialists.
—Brannon P. Denning
Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University