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• catalog abstract "The Dissent of the Governed is a diagnosis of what ails the body politic - the unwillingness of people in power to hear disagreement unless forced to - and a prescription for a new process of response. Carter examines the divided American political character on dissent, with special reference to religion, identifying it in unexpected places, with an eye toward amending it before it destroys our democracy. At the heart of this work is a rereading of the Declaration of Independence that puts dissent, not consent, at the center of the question of the legitimacy of democratic government. Carter warns that our liberal constitutional ethos - the tendency to assume that the nation must everywhere be morally the same - pressures citizens to be other than themselves when being themselves would lead to disobedience. This tendency, he argues, is particularly hard on religious citizens whose notion of community may be quite different from that of the sovereign majority of citizens. With reference to a number of cases, Carter shows that disobedience is sometimes necessary to the heartbeat of our democracy - and that the distinction between challenging accepted norms and challenging the sovereign itself, a distinction crucial to the Declaration of Independence, must be kept alive if we are to progress and prosper as a nation.".
• catalog contributor b10584731.
• catalog created "1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
• catalog description "Allegiance -- Disobedience -- Interpretation.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index.".
• catalog description "The Dissent of the Governed is a diagnosis of what ails the body politic - the unwillingness of people in power to hear disagreement unless forced to - and a prescription for a new process of response. Carter examines the divided American political character on dissent, with special reference to religion, identifying it in unexpected places, with an eye toward amending it before it destroys our democracy. At the heart of this work is a rereading of the Declaration of Independence that puts dissent, not consent, at the center of the question of the legitimacy of democratic government. Carter warns that our liberal constitutional ethos - the tendency to assume that the nation must everywhere be morally the same - pressures citizens to be other than themselves when being themselves would lead to disobedience. This tendency, he argues, is particularly hard on religious citizens whose notion of community may be quite different from that of the sovereign majority of citizens. With reference to a number of cases, Carter shows that disobedience is sometimes necessary to the heartbeat of our democracy - and that the distinction between challenging accepted norms and challenging the sovereign itself, a distinction crucial to the Declaration of Independence, must be kept alive if we are to progress and prosper as a nation.".
• catalog extent "xi, 167 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Dissent of the governed.".
• catalog identifier "0674212657 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0674212665 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Dissent of the governed.".
• catalog isPartOf "The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 1995".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Dissent of the governed.".
• catalog subject "323.6/5 21".
• catalog subject "Allegiance.".
• catalog subject "Government, Resistance to.".
• catalog subject "JC328 .C27 1998".
• catalog subject "Religion and politics.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Allegiance -- Disobedience -- Interpretation.".
• catalog title "The dissent of the governed : a meditation on law, religion, and loyalty / Stephen L. Carter.".
• catalog type "text".