Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865
Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865 As a distinguished historian of political thought at the University of Milan, Italy, Professor Marco Bassani brings a…
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Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865
As a distinguished historian of political thought at the University of Milan, Italy, Professor Marco Bassani brings a cosmopolitan perspective to the study of American political thought unencumbered by such self-congratulatory myths as "American exceptionalism." He views America as an extension of European civilization. In this they failed.This was not the case with the American founding. Having unleashed the modern state upon the world, Europeans now had the problem of how to control its inherent disposition to centralize power.
By 1860, the national government had actually diminished in power to tax, spend, and incur debt from what it could do in 1790--while central Whereas Europeans were burdened with heavy taxation, debt, and stood in fear of large standing armies, Americans, after 1800, paid no inland federal taxes, and by 1835 the national government was out of debt.
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