The End of Democracy?

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American conservatism's most ferocious internecine controversy in years erupted when the journal First Things published a symposium on "the judicial usurpation of politics," boldly raising the question "whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime." This volume collects the original symposium and the most important responses from a variety of journals, with a new 90-page essay by First Things' Richard John Neuhaus, "The Anatomy of a Controversy." The End of Democracy? places in the reader's hands everything he needs for a command of the salient constitutional debate of the decade.

A Conservative Book Club Main Selection

Contributors include Hadley Arkes, William Bennett, Robert Bork, Robert P. George, Mary Ann Glendon, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Russell Hittinger, and George Weigel.

praise "[A] furor that has yet to abate...an instructive and ready reference to the debate on judicial restraint..." - Kirkus "...a marker on the twisted evolutionary path of the conservative movement and...an interesting perspective on the intellectual debates surrounding contemporary American politics." - Review of Politics