Covenant & constitutionalism
Subtitle: the great frontier and the matrix of federal democracy
By: Daniel J. Elazar.
Series: The covenant tradition in politics ;; v. 3
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States.; Covenants -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.; United States -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Covenant and constitutionalism
Description: "Covenant and Constitutionalism, the third of four volumes in the series of volumes exploring the covenantal tradition in Western politics, traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former.

It explores these first steps and the subsequent paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement, and how these covenantal ideas and expressions were both supported by and challenged by liberal democracy and individualism as they unfolded in the latter part of the modern epoch and immediately thereafter."--BOOK JACKET.

"The book concludes with a look at the covenantal tradition at the beginning of the postmodern epoch and what may be a move to return to it in response to the crises accompanying the human transition to a new epoch after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.