Author | Gargarella, Roberto. author |
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Title | The Scepter of Reason [electronic resource] : Public Discussion and Political Radicalism in the Origins of Constitutionalism / by Roberto Gargarella |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3945-8 |
Descript | XXVIII, 143 p. online resource |
1 Radicalism and Conservatism in England -- The Authority of the People Outside the Parliament -- The Crisis of Political Representation -- The โRadical Societiesโ in England -- The Radicalsโ Epistemic View, and their Egalitarianism -- The Radicalsโ Institutional Proposals -- The Conservative Challenge -- When Thomas Paine Confronted Edmund Burke -- 2 Radicalism and Populism in the U.S. -- A Government for the Majority -- Town Meetings and County Conventions 29 The Constitution of Pennsylvania: The Experiment of โUnchecked Majoritiesโ -- The Constitution of Pennsylvania in Motion -- The โCritical Periodโ of American History -- The Context of the Crisis -- The Demand for Paper Money and Counter-Institutional Reactions -- Institutional Responses to the Majority Claims -- The Paper-Money Crisis in Rhode Island -- The Critics of Radicalism/Populism -- 3 The Conservative Reaction. James Madison: Institutional Reforms Against The Power of Factions -- The Evolution of Madisonโs Ideas of Factions. Earlier Approaches -- Defining the โVices of the Political Systemโ -- Analyzing the Madisonian Definition of Factions -- Representation -- Minorities -- Checks and Balances -- The Problems of the System of Checks and Balances -- 4 The Conservative Reaction II. Defending the New Institutions in the Federal Convention -- The โConservativeโ Antifederalists -- The Federalists -- The North American Constitution and Epistemic Elitism -- About Popular Assemblies and the House of Representatives -- Some Basic Tools -- The Executive -- The Senate -- The Judiciary -- 5 The Conservative Model of Deliberation -- Why Deliberation? What Kind of Deliberation? -- The Elitist Character of the Conservative Model of Deliberation -- Why Restricted Deliberation? -- Radicalism and Public Deliberation -- Why Public Deliberation? -- Appendix Contemporary Political Institutions and Deliberation -- The Possibility of Deliberation -- The Judiciary and Public Dialogue -- The Political Branches of Government and Deliberation -- We the People and Interbranch Dialogue -- Final Notes