Covenant and Civil Society: The Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy (Covenant Tradition in Politics)
By Daniel J. Elazar.
Description
The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establishment of the United States of America and our modern idea of federalism. More recently, these great products of the covenant tradition helped to bring about the collapse of twentieth-century totalitarianism and fuel...
ISBN(s)
1560003111, 9781560003113
