A Republic No More - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Republic No More write by Jay Cost. This book was released on 2016-07-12. A Republic No More available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: “A Republic—if you can keep it.” This book argues: we couldn’t keep it. A true republic privileges the common interest above the special interests. To do this, our Constitution established an elaborate system of checks and balances that disperses power among the branches of government, which it places in conflict with one another. The Framers believed that this would keep grasping, covetous factions from acquiring enough power to dominate government. Instead, only the people would rule. Proper institutional design is essential to this system. Each branch must manage responsibly the powers it is granted, as well as rebuke the other branches when they go astray. This is where subsequent generations have run into trouble: we have overloaded our government with more power than it can handle. The Constitution’s checks and balances have broken down because the institutions created in 1787 cannot exercise responsibly the powers of our sprawling, immense twenty-first-century government. The result is the triumph of special interests over the common interest. James Madison called this factionalism. We know it as political corruption. Corruption today is so widespread that our government is not really a republic, but rather a special interest democracy. Everybody may participate, yes, but the contours of public policy depend not so much on the common good, as on the push-and-pull of the various interest groups encamped in Washington, DC.
DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans
DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans write by Jesse Ventura. This book was released on 2012-06-11. DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ventura exposes how the two major parties have allowed corporations, businesses, and politically motivated wealthy individuals to manipulate elections, bribe elected officials, and silence the average American voter.
This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Republic of Suffering write by Drew Gilpin Faust. This book was released on 2009-01-06. This Republic of Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Republic, Not an Empire
Republic, Not an Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Republic, Not an Empire write by Patrick J. Buchanan. This book was released on 2013-02-05. Republic, Not an Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All but predicting the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Buchanan examines and critiques America's recent foreign policy and argues for new policies that consider America's interests first.
The Republic of Imagination
The Republic of Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Republic of Imagination write by Azar Nafisi. This book was released on 2014-10-21. The Republic of Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
