Taming the Prince

• Author: Harvey C. Mansfield
• ISBN 10: 0029199808
• ISBN 13: 9780029199800
• Release: September 14, 1989
• Format: Paperback (358 pages)
• List Price: $50.00
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  List Price: $50.00

  Tags: History, Americas, United States,

  Book Description:
  This survey of Western political thought ranges from Aristotle to "The Federalist Papers", showing how the doctrine of executive power arose and how it has developed to the present day. Although there were various "proto-executives", from Roman dictators to Christian kings, the modern executive first appears with Machiavelli's "The Prince". Yet Machiavelli's strong - even cruel - leader undermines republican theory. Subsequent philosophers, Mansfield argues, seized upon the Prince and transformed him into the American president. Liberalized by Locke, constitutionalized by Montesquieu, Machiavelli's bloodthirsty executive was finally "tamed" by channelling his antinomian energies into a uniquely flexible constitutional framework.

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