Benjamin Barber Quote

The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence — sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable — of all three dispositions. Americans, we might say, are anarchists in their values (privacy, liberty, individualism, property, and rights); realists in their means (power, law, coercive mediation, and sovereign adjudication); and minimalists in their political temper (tolerance wariness of government, pluralism, and such institutionalizations of caution as the separation of powers and judicial review.


p. 5 - Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age (2003)


The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence — sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable — of all three...

The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence — sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable — of all three...

The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence — sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable — of all three...

The American political system is a remarkable example of the coexistence — sometimes harmonious, more often uncomfortable — of all three...