TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Stephen L.
TI  - The dissent of the governed: a meditation on law, religion, and loyalty 
T2  - The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization
SN  - 9780674029248
AV  - JC328 .C27 1998
U1  - 323.6/5 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Allegiance
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Allégeance
KW  - Résistance au gouvernement
KW  - Religion et politique
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - LAW
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Staat (politicologie)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Gezag
KW  - Burgerrechten
KW  - Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid
KW  - Religieuze aspecten
KW  - Juridische aspecten
KW  - Resistance au gouvernement
KW  - Etats-Unis
KW  - ram
KW  - Religion et Etat
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index; Contents -- Preface -- 1: Allegiance -- 2: Disobedience -- 3: Interpretation -- Notes -- Index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - The Dissent of the Governed is a diagnosis of what ails the body politic - the unwillingness of people in power to hear disagreement unless forced to - and a prescription for a new process of response. Carter examines the divided American political character on dissent, with special reference to religion, identifying it in unexpected places, with an eye toward amending it before it destroys our democracy. At the heart of this work is a rereading of the Declaration of Independence that puts dissent, not consent, at the center of the question of the legitimacy of democratic government. Carter warns that our liberal constitutional ethos - the tendency to assume that the nation must everywhere be morally the same - pressures citizens to be other than themselves when being themselves would lead to disobedience. This tendency, he argues, is particularly hard on religious citizens whose notion of community may be quite different from that of the sovereign majority of citizens. With reference to a number of cases, Carter shows that disobedience is sometimes necessary to the heartbeat of our democracy - and that the distinction between challenging accepted norms and challenging the sovereign itself, a distinction crucial to the Declaration of Independence, must be kept alive if we are to progress and prosper as a nation
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