Monthly Archives: October 2019
We live in an age of increased specialization and expertise! We as individuals know more and more about less and less. Individuals become more powerful over a narrower set of issues and mostly ignorant and powerless over more and more issues! Modernity with its ever-increasing division of labor provides us with great advances in science and technology but also with a great sense of despair over having little control over forces and decisions which impact our lives! How can democracy…..
In today’s current debate. The term Deep State is often presented as a sinister force in American Politics! While it is accurate to report that bureaucracies often do not perform what the Chief Executive commands or directs it is not necessarily a conspiracy! Article II of the Constitution does say that Executive Power is vested in a President of the United States of America.
The Constitution, however is more complicated. It also is a Separation of Powers System which give…..
In The 20th and early part of the 21st Century the critical source of power has become centered on expertise. As a people, we have become more specialize and know more and more about less and less. Government agencies also reflect this phenomenon Elected leaders are therefore less capable of overseeing the bureaucracy that they have created to assist them into carrying out their public policy. As a result,the struggles for power is not confined to conflicts between the President,…..
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- Frank M. Sorrentino, PhD on Modernity v Democracy
- Skip Tamke on Modernity v Democracy
