The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
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Book Summary
About the Book: The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic An original, provocative contribution to the debate over rising economic inequality that argues that a strong and sizable middle class is in fact embedded in the very framework of our government and its founding document. For two thousand years, constitutional republics assumed class divisions a priori. But as Ganesh Sitaraman reminds us in this exceptionally lucid study, our Constitution, growing as it did out of a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, made no provisions to prevent the upper class from seizing the levers of power, as other constitutions had. Now that
ISBN-13
9780451493910
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Knopf
Publishing Date
2017-03-14
Total Pages
432

The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

by Ganesh Sitaraman (Author),
Knopf (Publisher)
fictionfantasyyoung adultaward winning
Product Specifications
Book Summary
About the Book: The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic An original, provocative contribution to the debate over rising economic inequality that argues that a strong and sizable middle class is in fact embedded in the very framework of our government and its founding document. For two thousand years, constitutional republics assumed class divisions a priori. But as Ganesh Sitaraman reminds us in this exceptionally lucid study, our Constitution, growing as it did out of a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, made no provisions to prevent the upper class from seizing the levers of power, as other constitutions had. Now that
Book Specifications
ISBN-13
9780451493910
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Knopf
Publishing Date
2017-03-14
Total Pages
432