About this title: In this provocative work, an American political scientist poses the question, "Why should we uphold our constitution?". The vast majority of Americans venerate the American Constitution and the principles it embodies, but many also worry that the United States has fallen behind other nations on crucial democratic issues, including economic ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. 0300092180 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall There is a full page book plate on the FFE which is a Yale Book Award presentation which is filled out in ink. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press:
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 198 pages. "Dahl explores the vital tension between the beliefs of Americans and their belief in the principles of democracy. " FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. read more
Description: Dahl, Robert A. How Democratic Is the American Constitution? New Haven: Yale University Press, [2001]. x, 198 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. New. * Noting that the Constitution incorporates several anti-democratic elements, such as a federal system, an electoral college and judicial review, Dahl explores the vital tension between America's veneration of the Constitution and commitment to democratic beliefs. Dahl also addresses how the American system compares to other democracies and how it can be ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780300092189ISBN:0300092180
Description: New. 0300092180. BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED-224 pp. 2 graphs--Publishers Weekly: In this slim, accessible volume, Yale political science professor emeritus Dahl (On Democracy) takes a critical look at our Constitution and why we continue to uphold it, though it is "a document produced more than two centuries ago by a group of fifty-five mortal men, actually signed by only thirty-nine, and adopted in only thirteen states. " As an instrument for truly democratic government, Dahl ... read more
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"For those that have studied their American history, the answer is quite simple: not very democratic at all. Nothing all that shocking or implausible about any individual observations or insights made herein, but a good confluence of all of the "little things" that make this a much more "republican", i.e. REPRESENTATIVE form of government, than it is a democratic one predicated on direct and informed involvement by its citizens."
"A really clear review of the problematics inherent in the kind of idol worship that's gone on with the American constitution. Not nearly as obnoxious as the title would have you believe."
"Dahl makes a solid case for a thorough overhaul of our constitution. But it won't happen. And the changes that will be made over the next quarter century will be through judical review by an over-represented conservative supreme court. Yes, this book is historically imformative, and eye-opening to some processes we may be ill-informed about, but it doesn't take a tenured Yale professor to figure out why the electoral college is undemocratic. I was thirsting for some solutions, and my mouth is still dry..."
"This is a short, critical, easy-to-read look at the American Constitution. It focuses on the political inequality inherent in both the American system and constitution. Nice to read such a well-written book as part of a course... it's certainly more of a "popular" account as it is written in a way that is probably accessible to the "average citizen" and not just academics in their ivory towers."
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