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Home >  Books >  Toward a More Perfect Union
Toward a More Perfect Union
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Writings of Herbert J. Storing
Edited by Joseph Bessette
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Toward a More Perfect Union
Dimensions: 6'' x 9''
469 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: February 1995
Paperback
ISBN: 0844738409
Price: $ 14.95
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This book is part of AEI's Landmarks in Contemporary Political Thought series. The books contain major writings by five of America's most distinguished political scientists and political theorists.

Herbert J. Storing was the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he also served as the director of Study of the Presidency at the White Burkitt Miller Center for Public Affairs. He was also a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellows.



Table of Contents

Foreword

The Editor's Introduction
The Constitutional Convention
Federalists and Anti-Federalist
The "Other" Federalist Papers
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic
Frederick Douglass
The School of Slavery
What Country Have I? Political Writings by Black Americans
William Blackstone
The Case against Civil Disobedience
Interest Groups and the Public Interest
The Crucial Link
The Problem of Big Government
Political Parties and the Bureaucracy
Leonard D. White and the Study of Public Adminstration
The Role of Government in Society
The Creation of the Presidency
The Presidency and the Constitution
A Plan for Studying the Presidency
In the Defense of the Electoral College
American Statesmanship
Liberal Education and the Common Man
The "Chicago School" of Political Science
The Achievement of Leo Strauss

Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the Editor

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