http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/14/the-cult-of-ron-paul-has-nothing-on-the-cult-of-the-presidency/3241/ For Liberty, One Individual At A Time Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:04:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://libertymaven.com/2008/11/14/the-cult-of-ron-paul-has-nothing-on-the-cult-of-the-presidency/3241/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 RBurnett Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:51:58 +0000 http://libertymaven.com/?p=3241#comment-1827 Gallagher: Try out Harvey Mansfield's Taming the Prince, which begins with the question of what that phrase "executive power" in Article II means. In answering that question. Mansfield surveys the types of executive or kingly rule from at least Plato to today. Let's put it this way: The executive as we know him was a fairly recent invention, and power as we understand it today also is a fairly recent invention--of political philosophers like Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. Indeed, another work also connected to this issue of the executive is Leo Strauss' On Tyranny, where he notes that modern political science has no idea of what tyranny or kingly or executive rule is. And there's also DeToqueville's Democracy in America, not to mention the Federalist. Try these out as well-- Gallagher:
Try out Harvey Mansfield’s Taming the Prince, which begins with the question of what that phrase “executive power” in Article II means. In answering that question. Mansfield surveys the types of executive or kingly rule from at least Plato to today. Let’s put it this way: The executive as we know him was a fairly recent invention, and power as we understand it today also is a fairly recent invention–of political philosophers like Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.
Indeed, another work also connected to this issue of the executive is Leo Strauss’ On Tyranny, where he notes that modern political science has no idea of what tyranny or kingly or executive rule is.
And there’s also DeToqueville’s Democracy in America, not to mention the Federalist.
Try these out as well–

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