The United States: An Experiment in Democracy

by Carl Lotus Becker and Carl Becker

Book Overview

According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765806371
• ISBN13: 9780765806376
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"