Covenant and Civil Society: Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781138508644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 404 str.

Daniel Elazar

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Daniel J. Elazar