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The crisis of the middle-class constitution : why income inequality threatens our republic

Sitaraman, Ganesh, author

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\"For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable--and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic?\"--Page [4] of cover.

• Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
• Subject: Constitutional law Economic aspects United States. / Equality Economic aspects. / Income distribution United States. / Middle class United States. / Power (Social sciences) / Plutocracy. / United States Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9781101973455, 1101973455

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
KF4749.S58 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE