The Power in the People

by Morley,Felix

• ISBN13: 9781412813426
• ISBN10: 1412813425
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The United States of America was established with lofty moral goals and noble purpose; it was believed that a government based on these ethical principles was the proper way to realize liberty and freedom. As the country continues to grow, from the days of the colonies to the influential nation that it is today, the governmental structure has grown and developed along with it into a unique type of government that profoundly affects the lives of the American people.Power in the People presents a detailed analysis of not only the origins of democracy, development and operation of government, and evolution of the country, but also a penetrating look into the character and purpose of the republic. Morley focuses on the founding of American freedom in the conviction that the individual is fully capable of self-government, and therefore power must be dispersed as much as possible among the individual citizens who generate public order from the internal order of their own souls. The power in the people is precisely that of self-government, which minimizes the need for state power, and the self-government is necessarily under the authority of God.The dream of building a commonwealth more gracious than any that had gone before was ever in the minds of the founding fathers and reflected in their act of placing great power in the hands of the citizens. Michael Henry’s new introduction to this classic book places the work into the context of contemporary society, most poignantly noting that America, by Morley’s standards, has not been vigilant enough in preserving its historic greatness or freedom.

Author Biography

Felix Morley (1894-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He worked as an editor at the Washington Post and is one of the founding editors of Human Events. After World War II he continued his work in journalism where he worked at NBC for Nation's Business. Some of his many works include Freedom and Federalism, The Foreign Policy of the United States, and For the Record. Michael Henry is professor of philosophy at St. John's University. He is also the series editor of Transaction's Library of Conservative Thought series.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition	p. ix
Foreword	p. xxvii
Preface	p. xxxi
Introduction	p. xxxiii
The Purpose of the Republic	p. 1
The Nature of the Republic	p. 26
The Heritage of the Republic	p. 53
Strength and Weakness	p. 79
State and Society	p. 104
The Issue of Authority	p. 129
The Meaning of Self-Government	p. 156
Free Enterprise	p. 181
The Fundamental Challenge	p. 214
To Maintain the Republic	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 281
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