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The politics of bad ideas -- The tax cut theories -- Evaluating the claims -- Budgetary politics and the spending mind-set -- Institutions, rules, and politics -- Big government republicanism costs money -- Politics, economics, and tax theories -- The impacts of recent fiscal policies on America -- The rise and decline of reality-based policymaking in the Federal Government, 1945-2007 -- The role of institutions -- Why do bad ideas persist? -- Escaping the dead weight of bad ideas.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Conversation Between Republicanism and Feminism -- 2 Livy and the Repetition of Republican Foundations -- 3 La Mandragola and the Seduction of Lucrezia -- 4 The Seriously Comedic, or Why Machiavelli's Lucrezia Is Not Livy's Virtuous Roman -- 5 The Paradox of Rousseau's Politics and the Return to the Founding -- 6 Nouvelle Héloïse and the Supplement of Sexual Difference -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

For the last twenty years this book has been cited by every serious writer on early American constitutional development. Any constitutional history of the independent United States must begin with this comprehensive study. This volume contains two new chapters: one demonstrating precedents in the state constitutions for the U.S. Constitution, and another chapter critically testing the 'republicanism over liberalism' thesis against political ideas and institutional arrangements that constitute the first state constitutions

Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks at how French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations

Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks at how French and American national traditions have represented the other, and how different conceptions of liberalism, democratic pluralism, and republicanism figure in these representations.

Art. 1 Konstytucji Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej z 2 kwietnia 1997 r. deklaruje, że Rzeczpospolita Polska stanowi dobro wspólne wszystkich obywateli. Pojęcie dobra wspólnego sięga swoimi korzeniami idei republikańskiej oraz myśli chrześcijańskiej. Co więcej, można wyróżnić dwie różne tradycje myślenia o dobru wspólnym: klasyczną, skupiającą się na dobru wspólnym rozumianym jako warunkach niezbędnych obywatelom do rozwoju oraz etatystyczną, która koncentruje się na interesie państwowym i racji stanu. Te dwie tradycje myślenia o dobru wspólnym mają także swoje normatywne odzwierciedlenie w polskim konstytucjonalizmie. Już w Konstytucji 3 Maja widać pewne nawiązania do klasycznego pojmowania dobra wspólnego. Natomiast tradycja racji stanu wpłynęła przede wszystkim na kształt Konstytucji kwietniowej. Tradycja ta została jednak świadomie porzucona przez ustrojodawcę w Konstytucji z 2 kwietnia 1997 r. na rzecz powrotu do koncepcji klasycznej. Mimo to, konstytucyjna zasada dobra wspólnego nie zawsze jest rozumiana w orzecznictwie w sposób spójny z zamysłem ustrojodawcy. Zrozumienie różnych tradycji ideowych stojących za pojęciem dobra wspólnego wydaje się być istotne dla właściwej praktyki stosowania i stanowienia prawa. ; The first article of the Polish Constitution of April 2, 1997, declares that the Republic of Poland is common good to all its citizens. The term - common good is built on two pillars: republicanism and Christian social thought. What is more, two different traditions of thought concerning the common good could be distinguished: the classical one which focuses on the conditions that are necessary for the development of citizens, and the statist one which focuses on the state, its prosperity and the interest of it. Those two traditions have their normative resemblance also in the Polish constitutionalism. Some influence of the first tradition can be noticed in the Constitution of May 3, 1791. The second tradition of the common good is primarily embodied in the April Constitution of Poland, but remains rather abandoned in the current one in favor of the classical view. Nevertheless, the constitutional principle of common good is not always perceived coherently with the will of the constitutional legislator. The understanding of different traditions of thoughts that formulated the category of common weal remains crucial for the practice of law, as well as for the proper legislation.

Straumann presents a grand narrative: Roman constitutionalism in the West from the age of Cicero to the American Founding Fathers. His project is forensic, mounting a case framed in terms of a dichotomy between the Greek ethical and political tradition of Plato and Aristotle which emphasizes civic virtue (Pocock's classical republicanism), and the Roman-law based constitutionalism of Cicero (Skinner's version). But this is too easy. Cicero was heavily influenced by Aristotle; and the very survival of Western civilization depended on translation movements, Greek into Arabic and Arabic into Latin, under the Abbasid and Cordoba Caliphates, which preserved the classical Greek texts on which it rests, and recirculated them back to Europe. This had important implications for Islamic jurisprudence, which was the progenitor of medieval European jurisprudence and scholastic dialectic. Justinian's recovery of Roman Law and subsequent medieval codifications are related to the impetus for the Islamic translation movement and Islamic jurisprudence at one remove. Why are the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire (which saw a continuation of Hellenic culture), the Islamic empires (which saw a continuation of Hellenistic culture), and the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic Peoples (which saw the recovery of Roman Law), missing from this account? ; Peer Reviewed

Book reviewed in this article: Clandestine Marriage in England, 150–850. By R.B. OUthwaite The Later Tudors. England, 1547–2603. By Penry Williams Thonias Nortorz: The Parliament Man. By Michael A.R. Graves Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution. By Glenn Burgess The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621–1641. Henry Parker and the English Civil Way. The Political Thought of the Pirhlic's 'Privado'. By Michael Mendle Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570–1640. Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649–1776. By Markku Peltonen Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649‐1776. Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth 1660–1722. By Perry Gauci Ireland in the Stuart Papers. Correspondence and Documents of Irish Interest from the Stuart Papers in the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle. Cuto's Letters. Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects. By John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon The Correspondence of Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury, Warwickshire. Imagining the Middle Class. The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1780–1840. By Dror Wahrman Popular Politics and British Anti‐Slavery. The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade, 1787–1807. By J.R. Oldfield Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism. The Church Rate Conzict in England and Wales, 1832–1868. By J.P. Ellens Parliament, Party and Politics in Victorian Britain. By T.A. Jenkins The Era of the Reform League: English Labour and Radical Politics, 1857–1872. Documents Selected by Gustav Mayer. Politics and Law in the Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. By John Hostettler Conceptualizing the State. Innovation and Dispute in British Political Thought, 1880–2914. By James Meadowcroft Turncoats: Changing Party Allegiance by British Politicians. By Robert Leach SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party. By Ivor Crewe and Anthony King The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions. By Peter Dorey Party Politics and Decolonization. The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa 2951–1964. By Philip Murphy The Winds of Change. Macmillan to Heath 1957–1975. By John Ramsden

Texas Unionists and the National Union League, 1863-1967 -- Black Texans -- The League Comes to Texas -- The League and Black Agency -- Black Agency and Democratic Violence, 1868 -- The League and George Ruby, Conventions, and the Direction of Texas Republicanism, 1868-1969 -- The League and the Election of 1869 -- Reorganization and Restructuring: James P. Newcomb and the League -- Internal Divisions and the Election of 1871 -- The Demise of the League and its Legacy.

Introduction -- Ideology, leadership, and party culture: The Lassalle Cult in German social democracy -- Between internationalism, nationalism and particularism: From the War of 1870-71 to the July Crisis, 1914 -- Attitudes to Labour in the German Social Democratic Party in the Kaiserreich -- Social democracy and the price of bread: The politics of subsistence in imperial Germany -- Reds in the ranks: Social Democrats in the Kaiser's army -- Reading Marx -- Workers and cultural activities: Culture, sociability, organisation -- Socialism and Republicanism in imperial Germany -- Conclusions.

Introduction -- Ideology, leadership, and party culture: The Lassalle Cult in German social democracy -- Between internationalism, nationalism and particularism: From the War of 1870-71 to the July Crisis, 1914 -- Attitudes to Labour in the German Social Democratic Party in the Kaiserreich -- Social democracy and the price of bread: The politics of subsistence in imperial Germany -- Reds in the ranks: Social Democrats in the Kaiser's army -- Reading Marx -- Workers and cultural activities: Culture, sociability, organisation -- Socialism and Republicanism in imperial Germany -- Conclusions.

The historical conditions of possibility of the life of the flesh: absolutism, civic republicanism and 'bare life' in Julius Caesar -- The life of the condemned: the autonomous legal system and the community of the flesh in Measure for measure -- Unsettling the civic republican order: the face of sovereign power and the fate of the citizen in Othello -- Life outside the law: torture and the flesh in King Lear -- Epilogue: The afterlife of the life of the flesh