TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,William F.
TI  - Testing the national covenant: fears and appetites in American politics 
SN  - 9781589017924
AV  - JC328.2 .M39 2011eb
U1  - 306.20973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Consensus (Social sciences)
KW  - United States
KW  - Public interest
KW  - Common good
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Intérêt public
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Bien commun
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-2017
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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