The Genius of America (32 page)
75 “the indispensable necessity”: Ibid., p. 500.
76 “Monday Sepr. 17.”: Ibid., p. 641.
76â77 “I confess that”: Ibid., pp. 641â42.
77 “It appears to me”: LWL.
77 “The founding fathers”: Schlesinger II, p. vii.
78 “The Founders of ”: Bailyn I, p. 4.
78 “You are not to enquire”: VRC I.
3. That Poor Little Thingâthe Expression
We the People
80 “Is it not”: Federalist 14.
80 “give me liberty”: SPH.
81 “Is this . . . an association . . . most clearly”: Elliot III, p. 44.
81 “that poor little thing”: VRC I.
82 “You are called upon”: Federalist 1.
82 “Conventions of Delegates”: Elliot V, p. 567.
82 “the most audacious”: Corwin, p. 106.
84 “There were some”: Bailyn I, p. 107.
84 “Judging from the newspapers”: Brant, p. 165.
85 “The proposed plan”: Centinel.
85 “They had no plan”: LMJ I.
85 “who either enjoys”: SJW.
86 “We dissent”: DMC.
86â87 “the omission of a Bill of Rights”: Ibid.
87 “smelt a rat”: Mayer, p. 370.
87 “Mr. Henry, who has been”: LMW I.
88 “I have to lament”: Mayer, p. 376.
88 “Here is a resolution”: Elliot III, pp. 44â45.
90 “the single most”: Bailyn II, p. 1142.
90â91 “When I reflect”: SJW.
91 “that violence and outrage”: DMC.
92 “adopted the system”: Pamphlets, p. 20.
92 “The Public here continues”: LMJ I.
92 “doubtful . . . the Constitution”: Pamphlets, p. 176.
92 “Hearken not to the voice”: Federalist 14.
93 “the experience of all mankind”: Pamphlets, p. 117.
93 “own opinion has”: LMJ II.
94 “I have not viewed it”: Ibid.
94 “parchment barriers . . . overbearing majorities”: Ibid.
94 “Wherever the real power”: Ibid.
96 “I give my assent”: Elliot II, p. 175.
96 “would remove the fears”: Ibid., p. 130.
96â97 “exert all their influence”: VRC II.
97 “for commencing proceedings”: Elliot I, p. 333.
98 “It will be”: SJM.
4. To Meet Extraordinary Needs
103 “It is patriotism”: Stone, p. 46.
103 “Perhaps it is”: Ketcham, p. 393.
103 “faithfully execute”: U.S. Const., Article 2, Section 1, Clause 8.
103 “our long national nightmare”: GFA.
104 “Hugh, it worked”: TM III.
104â5 “Our Constitution is”: FDRA I.
106 “nightmare”: GFA.
107 “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men”: GWFA.
107 “were made in”: SRN III.
107 “republic, if you can keep it”: Farrand III, p. 85.
107 “with luck . . . produce”: Berkin, p. 8.
108 “mobocracy”: Stone, p. 67.
109 “clearly recognized Federalist”: Elkins, p. 415.
110 “the government can”: Miller, p. 156.
110 “has inspired ignorance”: Ibid., p. 59.
110 “our government”: Stone, p. 35.
110 “to muzzle dissent”: Chernow, p. 570.
111 “force and coercion”: Miller, p. 74.
111 “ensure that the act”: Stone, p. 67.
111 “To be the proconsul”: WAH, p. 677.
111 “a free press”: Miller, p. 72.
111 “most reprehensible act”: Adams, p. 504.
112 “crowd[s] of spies”: Stone, p. 37.
112 “It is patriotism”: Ibid., p. 46.
112 “Perhaps it is”: Ketcham, p. 393.
112 “By leveraging a moment”: Stone, p. 29.
112 “put into the hands”: LJM.
112 “entire Federal bench”: Miller, p. 136.
113 “Information and communication”: Ketcham, p. 402.
113 “calculation . . . oppressive exercise”: Madison, p. 417.
113 “That the several states”: KR.
114 “dissolve the union”: Washington, p. 389.
114 “No State government”: Stone, p. 45 114 “exclusively vested”: Ibid.
114 “evil propensities of the government”: Miller, p. 179.
116 “a Constitution is”: Federalist 78.
116 “The opinion which gives”: LWTJ, p. 378.
117 “great political importance”: DTDA, chap. 6.
117 “most peculiarly American feature”: Fiske, p. 332.
117 “a constitutional convention”: Kammen, p. 265.
118 “With the utmost respect”: LNS.
119 “skeptical of Dean's allegations”: Sirica, p. 100.
119 “nervous”: Ibid., p. 107.
120 “No judge wants”: Ibid., p. 111.
120 “It's difficult to describe”: Ibid., p. 121.
120 “My own instinct”: Ibid., p. 118.
120â21 “That the Court”: Ibid., p. 265.
121 “I was overwhelmed”: Ibid., p. 138.
122 “embodies a set of values”: Kammen, p. 389.
122 “Americans have bitterly disagreed”: Ibid., p.123.
5. The Right to Alter the
Established Constitution
123 “No country ever”: Ward, p. 105.
123 “greater variet[ies] of parties”: Federalist 10.
124 “a promissory note”: SMLK.
125 “the People of America”: LWL.
125 “right . . . to alter”: Federalist 78.
127 “are not just words”: Amar, p. 18.
127 “the very vision”: Ibid.
127 “We had slavery”: SAL I.
128 “truly republican government”: Wilentz, p. 226.
128 “wicked design of demagogues”: Ibid., p. 225.
129 “a hundred years”: Amar, p. 352.
129 “The democratic proclivities”: Wilentz, p. 767.
130 “a covenant with death”: Stone, p. 85.
130 “The system almost died”: Amar, p. 360.
131 “bank of justice”: SMLK.
132 “New Frontier . . . looks”: Patterson I, p. 474.
132 “the most systematically segregated city”: Ibid., p. 478.
132 “Non-violence was losing”: Ibid., p. 480.
133 “whether all Americans”: Ibid., p. 481.
133 “Farce on Washington”: Ibid., p. 483.
134 “Tell them about your dream”: Ibid.
134 “Five score years ago”: SMLK.
135 “A woman is”: Ward, p. 42.
135 “A married woman”: Ibid., p. 45.
135â36 “No country ever has had”: Ibid., p. 105.
136 “If that government”: Ibid., p. 41.
136 “For a quarter of a century”: Flexner, p. 38.
136 “mission . . . is at home”: Ib id.,p. 142.
136â37 “Two million newly enfranchised black men”: Ward, p. 103.
137 “This hour belongs”: Anthony II, p. 59.
137 “Do you believe”: Ward, p. 103.
137 “If that word”: Ibid., p. 104.
138 “I will cut off ”: Flexner, pp. 137â38.
138 “When women,”: Ward, p. 119.
139 “Without having a lawful right”: Ibid., p. 142.
139 “Well I have been”: Sherr, p. 110.
140 “I could not see”: Linder.
140 “The only alleged ground”: Sherr, p. 114.
141 “Could I have spoken”: Linder.
141 “The Court will not order”: Anthony I, p. 85.
141 “If it is”: Sherr, p. 117.
141 “unbearable burden”: Flexner, p. 288.
6. A Mandate for Vigorous Action
147 “You cannot extend”: Hofstadter II, p. 258.
147 “Ours has become”: SRN II.
147â48 “There is no consensus”: Patterson II, p. 10.
149 “distant, dim and motionless body”: Kennedy, p. 30.
149 “if the Federal Government”: Ibid.
150 “restrain men”: TJA.
150â51 “Kindly separated by nature”: Ibid.
151 “The age of machinery”: SFDR.
151 “free, self-reliant, unencumbered”: Friedman, p. 338.
152 “groupings which centered”: Ibid., p. 339.
152 “Self-reliance gave way”: Marone II, p. 366.
152 “position and power”: Friedman, p. 339.
152 “bursting with class conflict”: Marone I, p. 370.
152 “Here was”: Morgan, p. 366.
152â53
DUE TO UNSETTLED BANKING CONDITIONS
: Ibid., p. 373.
153 “The fog of despair”: Schlesinger I, p. 3.
153 “The Country was”: FC.
153 “No one can live”: Leuchtenburg, p. 19.
154 “The United States Army”: Burns, p. 217.
154 “The American experiment”: Schlesinger I, p. 484.
154 “If we don't get”: Leuchtenburg, p. 24.
154 “Unless something is done”: Schlesinger I, p. 3.
154 “If we don't give”: Ibid., p. 268.
154â55 “There is nothing”: Ibid., p. 5.
155 “directorate of twelve”: Leuchtenburg, p. 30.
155 “with dictatorial powers”: Ibid., p. 30.
155 “genial and lighthearted dictator”: Ibid.
155 “The situation is critical”: Kennedy, p. 111.
156 “feasible under the form”: FDRA I.
157 “You cannot extend”: Hofstadter II, p. 258.
157 “overburden the shoulders”: Burns, p. 549.
158 “to articulate and organize”: Kennedy, p. 47.
158 “To the New Dealers”: Sunstein, p. 43.
158 “a new despotism,”: SFDR.
159 “opportunity to make”: Ibid.
159 “We do not distrust”: FDRA I.
160 “Energy in the Executive”: Federalist 70.
160 “the President [was]”: Rudalevige, p. 40.
160 “inertia”: Schlesinger II, p. vii.
161 “The New Dealers”: Leuchtenburg, p. 84.
163 “The Great Depression”: Rudalevige, p. 40.
163 “The American home”: Patterson I, p. 685.
165 “All you need”: Ibid., p. 719.
165â166 “Ours has become”: SRN II.
166 “It's time”: SRN I.
167 “learned to their dismay” Patterson II, p. 90.
167 “Ask not”: JFKA.
168 “second Bill of Rights”: FDRA II.
170 “Social Gospel”: Marone II, p. 18.
170 “Americans were much less sympathetic”: Patterson I, p. 638.
170 “silent . . . forgotten . . . the non demonstrators”: SRN I.
171 “The backlash represented”: Patterson I, p. 676.
171 “mutual concessions and sacrifices”: SJW.
171â72 “Conditioned to expect”: Patterson II, p. 10.
172 “We wanted to create”: Patterson I, p. 697.
172 “What you see”: SJC.
7. Government Is Not the Solution,
Government Is the Problem
174 “The separation of powers”: FA, p. 127.
175 “Our political institutions”: Ehrman, p. 41.
176 “In the present”: RRA I.
176 “wounds . . . still very”: SJC.
177 “we the people”: RRA II.
177â78 “While fond of damning”: Patterson II, p. 163.
178
IS GOVERNMENT DEAD
?: TM I.
179 “No retreat. No surrender”: DeLay, p. 9.
179 “broken branch”: Mann, p. 13.
179 “The institutional rivalry”: Ibid., p. 139.
181 “We're mad as hell”: TM II.
182 “the strongest expression”: Ibid.
182 “minimizing, even spurning”: Marone I, p. 112.
183 “the restoration of ”: Ibid.
184 “would put Madison”: Ibid.
184 “would study the issues”: Hofstadter I, p. 259.
184 “In ordinary circumstances”: Lippmann, p. 41.
184â85 “Small and highly organized groups”: Hofstadter I, p. 266.
185 “Government by initiative”: Broder, p. 5.
185 “typically the result”: CQ, p. 163.
186 “A commanding presence”: WP.
187 “twisted and pulled”: SJC.
187 “The separation of powers”: FA, p. 127.
187â88 “they began”: Ehrman, p. 41.
188 “through study and consensus”: Ibid.
188 “a desire to avoid politics”: Ibid., pp. 41â42.
189 “directly or indirectly”: Schwarz, p. 56.
189 “The Enterprise, functioning largely at North's direction”: Contra, Executive Summary.
190 “The Chief Executive”: Ibid., p. 465.
192 “one of the most disgraceful”: Ehrman, p. 130.
192 “Congress and the White House”: Ibid., p. 131.
192 “when politicians acted”: Ibid., p. 136.
192 “None of those”: Ibid.
192 “In contrast, Gramm-Rudman”: Ibid., p. 137.
193 “I do not think”: Broder, p. 242.
193 “Senators were intensely loyal”: Mann, p. 146.
194 “Members of the majority party”: Ibid., p 155.
194 “Those institutions”: Halper, p.70.
196 “failed to rebuild”: Mann, p. 122.
196 “and both the presidency”: Ibid.
197 “found that civic competence”: Bok, p. 406.
197â98 “a growing danger”: Sandel, p. 351.
198 “I am warning”: RRA II.
198 “what holds us”: Kammen, p. 398.
Conclusion: We
199 “A Constitution which . . . has brought”: Dunn, p. 82.
199 “People revere the Constitution”: NYT II.
200 “representative government bottomed”: Ellis, p. 6.
200 “It secured”: Dunn, p. 82.
200 “The United States is”: Ellis, p. 5.
202 “an avaricious society”: Wood II, p. 591.
203 “It is striking”: Bok, p. 403.
204 “that the nation's citizenry”: Farkas.
204 “Americans have expectations”: Bok, p. 383.
209 “the most wonderful work”: Kammen, p. 162.
210 “splended complacency . . . neglectful”: Ibid., p. 18.
211 “People revere”: NYT II.
211 “You must . . . ob lige”: Federalist 51.
211 “monarchial executive argument”: Schwarz, p. 2.
213 “In short, our democracy”: NYT I.
214 “suppose the President”: Kammen, p. 383.
215 “Democracy is never”: Wilentz, p. 236.
218 “Like the Bible”: FC.
219 “This national feeling”: RRA I.
