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Democracy or republic? : the people and the Constitution
- Title
- Democracy or republic? : the people and the Constitution / Jay Cost.
- Author
- Cost, Jay
- Publication
- Washington, DC : AEI Press, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, sponsoring body.
- Description
- vii, 164 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "How do you place the people in charge without creating a democratic tyranny? By the time of the American Revolution, nobody in the history of the world had yet answered this question. In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the Right defends our founding document, the Left argues that it's an antiquated plan of government that goes against basic principles of democratic sovereignty. Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution argues that the Constitution is being misunderstood. Its plan of government is for a republic, not a democracy. In both types of government, the people alone possess sovereignty, but republics go further than this. The point of the Constitution is to ensure that the people rule for the good of all, not just those who happen to make up a majority. Our Constitution does this by promoting consensus. The larger, broader, and more considered a majority is, the more able it is to govern under our system. America, then, is not merely a democracy. It is something greater. It is a republic"--
- Alternative Title
- People and the Constitution
- Subject
- Constitution
- Constitution (United States)
- Consensus (Social sciences) > Political aspects
- Constitutional law > Political aspects > United States
- Republicanism > United States
- Democracy > Social aspects > United States
- Constitutional law > Political aspects
- Democracy > Social aspects
- Politics and government
- Republicanism
- Law
- Constitutional law
- Democracy
- Consensus (Social sciences)
- United States > Constitution
- United States > Politics and government
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Published for the American Enterprise Institute."--Title page.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The basics -- A national republic -- Checks and balances -- The lawmaking process -- The necessity of consensus -- Dead-hand control? -- The parties -- The judiciary -- Constitutional virtue.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-2706
- ISBN
- 9780844750514
- 0844750514
- 9780844750521
- 0844750522
- 9780844750538 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023035692
- OCLC
- 1390917640
- Author
- Cost, Jay, author.
- Title
- Democracy or republic? : the people and the Constitution / Jay Cost.
- Publisher
- Washington, DC : AEI Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, sponsoring body.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cost, Jay. Democracy or republic? Washington, DC : AEI Press, [2023] 9780844750538 (DLC) 2023035693
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-2706