Holt McDougal Library, Middle School with Connections by Anthology

Holt McDougal Library, Middle School with Connections by Anthology

1.Moderate government is a time-honored and cherished doctrine. It has been considered the best solution of preventing tyranny and anarchy alike. However, expositions of the doctrine tend either to be entrenched by the technicalities of constitutional and public choice theory, or to remain largely exhortative. This book aims at providing a larger and more commonsensical defense of it. It addresses the issue of moderation but within a broader perspective of reflecting on how governments have developed with inherent constraints. This offers an analysis of the Antigone and Measure for Measure to discuss the necessary fall of tyranny, and the problems of how to distinguish between order and disorder. It is then argued that doing political theory is another important constraint on governments. Even conceptions that envision an unconstrained sort of government run into difficulties and as an unintended consequence, confirm the soundness of the idea that governing is an inherently constrained business. The book then takes issue with the recently growing awareness, associated with political realism, that governing is as much a personal as an institutional activity. In this context, the virtue of moderation will be discussed, and shown how it grows out of the experience of shame, whereby we are made conscious of our limitations of control over ourselves. Governing is to a large part about control, and as a personal activity it preserves the centrality of shame, and the insight that moderation is the best way to maintain effective control without pretending to have full control. Then, the book discusses three offices of government, traditionally considered to be the pivotal ones: the legislator, the chief executive, and the judge. Each will be analyzed by help of three fundamental distinctions: normal vs exceptional times, personal vs institutional aspects, and governing vs anti-governing. They highlight and confirm the inherent constraints of each office. Finally, three political conceptions of governing will be discussed, ending with a reflection on the principle of the separation of powers.

Michelene Wandor is the author of Understudies, published in 1980. She has been Poetry Editor and a regular theatre reviewer for Time Out since 1971 and has also written on theatre for Spare Rib, Plays and Players and The Morning Star. Since 1970 she has been writing poetry and plays of her own - for theatre, radio and television - often in close collaboration with feminist and gay theatre groups, such as Monstrous Regiment. She has also compiled an anthology of British Women's Liberation writings, The Body Politic (1972), edited a collection of feminist plays, Strike While the Iron is Hot (1980) and contributed to a collection of feminist short stories, Tales I Tell My Mother (1978).

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ISBN 13	9780030551024
ISBN 10	0030551021
Title	Holt McDougal Library, Middle School with Connections
Author	Anthology
Series	Hrw Library
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Holt McDougal
Year published	2000-10-01
Number of pages	251
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