Daniel Judah Elazar

"Covenant and Constitutionalism, the third of four volumes in the series of volumes exploring the covenantal tradition in Western politics, traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. It explores these first steps and the subsequent paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism, communitarianism, and the cooperative movement, and how these covenantal ideas and expressions were both supported by and challenged by liberal democracy and individualism as they unfolded in the latter part of the modern epoch and immediately thereafter."--BOOK JACKET. "The book concludes with a look at the covenantal tradition at the beginning of the postmodern epoch and what may be a move to return to it in response to the crises accompanying the human transition to a new epoch after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

Constitutionalizing Globalization explores two converging trends: the spread of federalism and federal arrangements around the world, and the globalization taking place on the international scene. Daniel Elazar shows how globalization of the economy and the concern for global human rights bring with them the need for development of a constitutional order that will control both. The gradual development of appropriate constitutional mechanisms and controls is part of a general shift from modern statism to postmodern federalism. Reliance on the sovereignty of the nation-state, which marked the era from the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 to the end of World War II, gave way to the beginning of a world order that links states in various ways through enforceable constitutional bonds. These trends have been recognized by students both of federalism and of international relations. Constitutionalizing Globalization is the first book to join the perspectives of both in order to explain the new paradigm. It is important reading for students and scholars of constitutional issues, federalism, and international relations.

"Covenant and Civil Society is the final volume in Elazar's monumental series The Covenant Tradition in Politics. In it, he traces the tradition's rebirth and development in the modern epoch."--BOOK JACKET. "Covenant and Civil Society also considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch, and explores the role of the covenant in the modern state era and the development of modern democracy. Covenantalism is further explored through the examples of Biblical Israel, Swiss exceptionalism, Northern Italy, and the Latin-Germanic borderlands. Though these are typically thought of as organic or hiearachical models, he argues that in the end a covenantal vein is part of the western tradition as such."--BOOK JACKET.

In the years between 1846 and 1861, foundations were laid for new forms of political organization in the United States. Unfortunately, these foundations were not strong enough to prevent civil war. Daniel Elazar, one of the world's leading authorities on constitutional issues, goes beyond the usual discussion of the southern slave economy and the northern disapproval of the slave trade, to get to the root of the problem. He describes a fast-changing culture underpinning explosive political differences and examines the specific social, political, and economic changes that were occurring at the time - changes that tore communities and families apart, drove northern and southern states into conflict and eventually led the nation into a bloody civil war.

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