welfare state provides--Americans have demanded that government be made to run like a business. Hence today's privatization … revolution. But as Jon D. Michaels shows, separating the state from its public servants, practices, and institutions does … theory that explains the modern welfare state as a worthy successor to the framers' three-branch government. What legitimates …

democracy. Scholars opposed to the cancelation of sovereign debt refer to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the British … identifying the intrinsic contradictions of representative democracy, public debt, and modern banking in early modern England …, contradictions that were incompatible with the well-being and democracy of a community. It further examines how the contradictions of …