America's Constitutional Soul (The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought)
By Toby CarrollIn "America's Constitutional Soul", Harvey Mansfield - a political theorist and thinker on the Constitution - describes what's wrong with American politics today and what political scientists can do about it. Beginning with a chronicle of the Reagan elections, Mansfield shows how American politics reveals its nature by the way it pictures the Constitution. He takes aim at the vaunted "realism" of contemporary political scientists, contrasting it with the real-world successes of those early practitioners of the art who actually helped define a whole new form of government - and with it such concepts as federalism, a strong executive and judici
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In "America's Constitutional Soul", Harvey Mansfield - a political theorist and thinker on the Constitution - describes what's wrong with American politics today and what political scientists can do about it. Beginning with a chronicle of the Reagan elections, Mansfield shows how American politics reveals its nature by the way it pictures the Constitution. He takes aim at the vaunted "realism" of contemporary political scientists, contrasting it with the real-world successes of those early practitioners of the art who actually helped define a whole new form of government - and with it such concepts as federalism, a strong executive and judicial review.