As far as republican principles will admit : essays / by Martin Diamond ; edited by William A. Schambra.

Author: Diamond, Martin, 1919-1977.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 1991.

Descriptionvii, 405p. 23cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS: THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: Democracy and The Federalist: a reconsideration of the framers' intent -- The Federalist: 1787-1788 -- The separation of powers and the mixed regime -- Conservatives, liberals, and the Constitution -- PART TWO: DECENTRALIST FEDERALISM AND REPUBLIC VIRTUE: What the framers meant by federalism -- The Federalist's view of federalism -- The ends of federalism -- The Federalist on federalism: "neither a national nor a federal constitution" -- The forgotten doctrine of enumerated powers -- The electoral college and the American idea of democracy -- PART THREE: THE HORIZON OF REPUBLICAN LIBERTY AND THE NATURAL ARISTOCRACY: The revolution of sober expectations -- The Declaration and the Constitution: liberty, democracy, and the founders -- The American idea of equality: the view from the founding -- Lincoln's greatness -- PART FOUR: "ENCLAVES OF EXCELLENCE" AND THE STUDY OF POLITICS: The problem of reading in an age of mass democracy -- On the study of politics in a liberal education -- Teaching about politics as a vocation -- The dependence of fact upon "value" -- PART FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: The utopian grounds for pessimism and the reasonable grounds for optimism -- Ethics and politics: the American way.

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