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Covenant and civil society : the constitutional matrix of modern democracy

Title: Covenant and civil society : the constitutional matrix of modern democracy / Daniel J. Elazar.
Author: Elazar, Daniel Judah.
Publication: New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction, 1998.

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Description

x, 404 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Covenant and Civil Society is the final volume in Elazar's monumental series The Covenant Tradition in Politics. In it, he traces the tradition's rebirth and development in the modern epoch."--BOOK JACKET.
"Covenant and Civil Society also considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch, and explores the role of the covenant in the modern state era and the development of modern democracy. Covenantalism is further explored through the examples of Biblical Israel, Swiss exceptionalism, Northern Italy, and the Latin-Germanic borderlands.
Though these are typically thought of as organic or hiearachical models, he argues that in the end a covenantal vein is part of the western tradition as such."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

Pt. I. Covenant: From Commonwealth to Civil Society. 1. Prologue: Toward a Civil Constitutionalism. 2. Covenant and the New Political Science. 3. Britain: From Whiggism to Liberalism. 4. From Tocqueville to Personalism: Covenant and its Displacement in Post-Revolutionary European Thought. 5. Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers -- Pt. II. Covenant and the Age of State-Building. 6. Europe: Modern Nationalism and the Covenant Tradition. 7. The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions. 8. Revolutions: Cooperative, Collectivist, and Coercive. 9. Swiss Exceptionalism: Communal and Liberal Democracy -- Pt. III. Covenant and Constitutionalism. 10. Constitutionalism: The Modern Expression of the Covenantal Tradition. 11. The Three Dimensions of the Constitution. 12. The Covenant Tradition and Rights -- Pt. IV. Present and Future. 13. The Decline and Possible Revival of Covenant in Our Times. 14. Toward a World Covenantal Network. 15. Covenant, Republicanism, and Democracy.
16. Where Does This Bring Us? Excursus 1. The Language of Covenant -- Excursus 2. The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations and Rights.

ISBN

1560003111 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97049240

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Columbia University Libraries