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An anthology of essays on the Founding in its Western intellectual context. George Carey writes: "These splendid essays illuminate significant dimensions of the foundations on which our republic was formed;dimensions that have been all but erased over the course of…
In Democracy in America, Tocqueville attempts to combine both the ancient view (regime analysis) and the modern view (federalism, judicial review, separation of powers) of constitutionalism in his interpretation of the US constitutional system, weaving them into an original and…