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Fishkin, Joseph, author.
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Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Constitutional history -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Oligarchy -- Political aspects -- United States.
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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The anti-oligarchy c...
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The anti-oligarchy constitution : reconstructing the economic foundations of American democracy / Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath.
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Fishkin, Joseph, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
Subjects
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Constitutional history -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Oligarchy -- Political aspects -- United States.
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States.
ISBN:
9780674980624 (hardcover) :
067498062X (hardcover)
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632 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Constitution-making and the political economy of self-rule in the early republic -- Clashing constitutional political economies in antebellum America -- The second founding: a brief union of three precepts -- Constitutional class struggle in the Gilded Age -- Progressive constitutional ferment in the new century -- The New Deal "democracy of opportunity" -- Constitutional counter-revolution and the legacies of a truncated New Deal -- The Great Society and the great forgetting -- Building a democracy of opportunity today.
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"Oligarchy is a threat to the republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate political power, and ensure a broad distribution of wealth and political power among ordinary Americans"--
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
320.973 Fi
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07/10/2024
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