The anti-oligarchy constitution : reconstructing the economic foundations of American democracy / Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath.
| Author/creator |
Fishkin, Joseph author. |
| Other author/creator | Forbath, William E., 1952- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. |
| Description | pages cm |
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| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021020480 |
| ISBN | 9780674980624 |
| ISBN | 067498062X |
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