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The Dissent of the Governed: Meditation on Law, Religion and Loyality by Stephen L. Carter (Hardcover, 1998)

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This text defends dialogue that negotiates conflict and keeps democracy alive, and at the same time it protrays America as dying from a refusal to engage in such a dialogue, a polity where everybody speaks, but nobody listens. It diagnoses the ailment of the body politic as the unwillingness of people in power to hear disagreement unless forced to, and precribes a new process of response. At the heart of this work is a re-reading of the Declaration of Independence that puts dissent, not consent, at the centre of the question of legitimacy of democratic government. The author argues that liberal constitutional ethos - the tendency to assume that the nation must everywhere be morally the same - pressures citizens to be other than themselves when being themselves would lead to disobedience. This he argues is particularly hard on the religious citizen whose sense of community may be quite different from that of the sovereign majority of citizens. This leads to a view for the autonomy of communities into which democratic citizens organize themselves as a condition for dissent, dialogue, and independence.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674212657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88714476

Product Key Features

Author
Stephen L. Carter
Publication Name
The Dissent of the Governed: Meditation on Law, Religion and Loyality
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Law, Government, Politics
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
176 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
215mm
Item Width
148mm
Item Weight
350g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Stephen L. Carter
Series Title
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States