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Title

Covenant & constitutionalism : the great frontier and the matrix of federal democracy / Daniel J. Elazar.

Author

Elazar, Daniel Judah.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xii, 287 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Covenant and Constitutionalism, the third of four volumes in the series of volumes exploring the covenantal tradition in Western politics, traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former.
• It explores these first steps and the subsequent paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement, and how these covenantal ideas and expressions were both supported by and challenged by liberal democracy and individualism as they unfolded in the latter part of the modern epoch and immediately thereafter."--BOOK JACKET.
• "The book concludes with a look at the covenantal tradition at the beginning of the postmodern epoch and what may be a move to return to it in response to the crises accompanying the human transition to a new epoch after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• The covenant tradition in politics ; v. 3
• Elazar, Daniel Judah. Covenant tradition in politics ; v. 3.

Alternative Title

Covenant and constitutionalism

Subject

• Constitutional history > United States
• Covenants > History. > United States
• United States > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The New World Experience -- 1. Covenant and the American Founding -- 2. The Revolution and the Declaration of Independence -- 3. Constitutions as Covenants -- 4. Covenant and Contending Principles in the Expansion of the United States -- 5. Slavery and Secession: Covenant versus Compact -- 6. Covenant and the Challenges of Human Nature -- 7. The Sum of Covenantal Expressions -- 8. The Western Hemisphere: False and Real Frontiers -- 9. The Southern Hemisphere and the Asian Coast -- 10. Covenant as a Theo-Political Tradition: A Summary Statement.

ISBN

1560002352 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96052654

OCLC

• 36147230
• ocm36147230

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries