To be a U.S. citizen is to be a member of a constitutional order
that requires political unity but is also committed to social and
cultural diversity. How do we solve the riddle of the one and the
many? What is, in Tom Paine's words, "the constitution of the
people"?
This is a perennial question that goes to the heart of American
society and that increasingly shapes public debates about the
health of our body politic. To answer it, Robert Calvert, a
political scientist, has collected original essays by six
distinguished scholars who are among the most influential
interpreters of the American scene today.
The essays included in this book are united by the effort to
understand America's identity in a way that does justice to the
paradoxes and pluralities of its politics. Each seeks to find some
middle ground between a government too intrusive and citizens too
removed from public life, a balance between particular freedom and
common purpose. Vigorously argued, lively, and accessible to the
general reader, these essays challenge much of contemporary thought
on the meaning of American constitutionalism.
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