From this work, the author concludes that location has a major impact on what happens and the reason it occurs. A vital reference tool for all those who need to understand the framework of world politics, Federal Systems of the World has been compiled by the Jerusalem Institute for Federal Studies. The work covers all confederal arrangements. It discusses current developments, including the decay of centralized authority. This collection of essays, originally presented at a conference on federal theology, traces the development of federal theology and its relationship to modern political thought, especially that theory of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Several essays focus on the political thought of a number of theologians from that period.
This book explores the decline of the political ideas of covenant and political compact as Americans passed from the revolutionary period into the nineteenth century. A distinguished group of political scientists focus on the transformation from covenant to compact in the late eighteenth century, the diminishing use of both among intellectual and political pace setters in the early nineteenth century, their partial revival at the time of the Civil War, and replacement by Social Darwinism in the late nineteenth century. By examining nineteenth century politics, law, literature, and theology, they reconstruct the impact of the covenant idea on American politics and political thought.