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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution : Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022Description: 632 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780674980624
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF4552. F57
Contents:
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.
Summary: "Oligarchy is a threat to the republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate political power, and ensure a broad distribution of wealth and political power among ordinary Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks KF4552 .F57 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 030103
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-596) 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 republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate political power, and ensure a broad distribution of wealth and political power among ordinary Americans"-- Provided by publisher.

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