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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Audiobook, by Joseph Fishkin Play Audiobook Sample

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Audiobook

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy Audiobook, by Joseph Fishkin Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Daniel Henning Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 14.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 10.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765099087

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

29

Longest Chapter Length:

53:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

32:42 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

44:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the center of a robust tradition in American political and constitutional thought.

Fishkin and Forbath demonstrate that reformers, legislators, and even judges working in this "democracy-of-opportunity" tradition understood that the Constitution imposes a duty on legislatures to thwart oligarchy and promote a broad distribution of wealth and political power. During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans argued in this tradition that racial equality required breaking up the oligarchy of the Slave Power and distributing wealth and opportunity to former slaves and their descendants. President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers built their politics around this tradition, winning the fight against the "economic royalists" and "industrial despots."

Today this tradition in progressive American economic and political thought lies dormant. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution begins the work of recovering it and exploring its profound implications for our deeply unequal society and badly damaged democracy.

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