Slaying Leviathan - 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 Slaying Leviathan write by Leslie Carbone. This book was released on 2009. Slaying Leviathan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the moral dimension of tax policy and calls for a fundamental tax reform
Slaying Leviathan
Slaying Leviathan - 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 Slaying Leviathan write by Glenn S. Sunshine. This book was released on 2021. Slaying Leviathan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents. Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: "Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty." In Slaying Leviathan, historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book"--
Law and Leviathan
Law and Leviathan - 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 Law and Leviathan write by Cass R. Sunstein. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Law and Leviathan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.
Leviathan
Leviathan - 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 Leviathan write by Thomas Hobbes. This book was released on 2012-10-03. Leviathan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Slaying the Dragon
Slaying the Dragon - 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 Slaying the Dragon write by Bernard Frank Batto. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Slaying the Dragon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Batto argues persuasively that biblical authors, like other ancient Near Eastern authors, used mythic traditions in composing their new syntheses. . . . His bold argument is impressive".--Richard J. Clifford, Professor of Old Testament, Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
