Daniel Elazar

Covenant and Civil Society (eBook, PDF)

Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351291439
• Artikelnr.: 54107807

Autorenporträt

Daniel J. Elazar

Inhaltsangabe

1: Covenant
1: Prologue
2: Covenant and the New Political Science
3: Britain
4: From Tocqueville to Personalism
5: Four Twentieth-Century Federalist Thinkers
2: Covenant and the Age of State-Building
6: Europe
7: The Covenant Motif in Modern Revolutions
8: Revolutions
9: Swiss Exceptionalism
3: Covenant and Constitutionalism
10: Constitutionalism
11: The Three Dimensions of the Constitution
12: The Covenant Tradition and Rights
4: 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