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03176aam a2200433 i 4500 001 50C857F62E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 231013s2024 ksu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023019865 020 $a 0700636234 020 $a 9780700636235 035 $a (OCoLC)1404058385 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4550 $b .H3435 2024 100 1 $a Hale, Dennis, $e author. 245 10 $a Keeping the Republic : $b a defense of American constitutionalism / $c Dennis Hale and Marc Landy. 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2024] 300 $a 275 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a American political thought 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a America as a modern state -- The case against the Constitution -- The case against the Constitution, reconsidered -- Reform in the constitutional grain -- Thinking constitutionally. 520 $a "Keeping the Republic is a defense of the American constitutional order, and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which "the living are governed by the dead." Dennis Hale and Marc Landy takes seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting their argument, they present an intellectual history of the key critics, including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Dahl, and Sanford Levinson. Hale and Landy frame their defense of the Constitution by understanding America in terms of modernity, in which small republics are no longer possible and there is a need to protect the citizens of a massive modern state while still preserving liberty. The Constitution makes large, popular government possible by placing effective limits on the exercise of power. The Constitution forces the people to be governed by the dead, both to pay the debt we owe to those who came before us and to preserve society for generations yet unborn. Keeping the Republic is both a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order of the nation's Framers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $t Constitution 650 0 $a Constitutional law $z United States. 650 0 $a Law reform $z United States. 650 6 $a Droit $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $x Reforme $0 (CaQQLa)201-0090687 $z Etats-Unis. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 630 07 $a Constitution (United States) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356075 650 7 $a Constitutional law $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875797 650 7 $a Law reform $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994081 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 700 1 $a Landy, Marc, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hale, Dennis. $t Keeping the republic $d Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2024 $z 9780700636242 $w (DLC) 2023019866 830 0 $a American political thought 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011338.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50C857F62E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search