Testing the national covenant : fears and appetites in American politics / William F. May.

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May, William F

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781589017924
1589017927
158901765X
9781589017658

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Testing the national covenant.DDC classification:

306.20973 22

LOC classification:

JC328.2 .M39 2011eb

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Contents:

Containing runaway fears in America foreign policy -- The overreach of free market ideology : business and government -- Free market ideology : bearing on other centers of power -- Curbing runaway appetites in domestic policy -- The national covenant : we the people -- The national covenant : forming a more perfect union -- Keeping covenant with immigrants and undocumented workers.

Summary: Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites?. Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the.

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Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites?. Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the.

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