LEADER 04466nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910455457003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-26254-9 010 $a0-674-02924-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674262546 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805691 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483914 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335290 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483914 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594165 035 $a(PQKB)10460734 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11989400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029443 035 $a(PQKB)11654459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300741 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300741 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331327 035 $a(OCoLC)923117144 035 $a(DE-B1597)586313 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674262546 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805691 100 $a19970903d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dissent of the governed$b[electronic resource] $ea meditation on law, religion, and loyalty /$fStephen L. Carter 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $axi, 167 p 225 1 $aThe William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;$v1995 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-21265-7 311 $a0-674-21266-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1 Allegiance -- $t2 Disobedience -- $t3 Interpretation -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBetween loyalty and disobedience; between recognition of the law's authority and realization that the law is not always right: In America, this conflict is historic, with results as glorious as the mass protests of the civil rights movement and as inglorious as the armed violence of the militia movement. In an impassioned defense of dissent, Stephen L. Carter argues for the dialogue that negotiates this conflict and keeps democracy alive. His book portrays an America dying from a refusal to engage in such a dialogue, a polity where everybody speaks, but nobody listens. The Dissent of the Governed is an eloquent diagnosis of what ails the American 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. His book makes a powerful case for the autonomy of communities--especially but not exclusively religious--into which democratic citizens organize themselves as a condition for dissent, dialogue, and independence. With reference to a number of cases, Carter shows how disobedience is sometimes necessary to the heartbeat of our democracy--and how the distinction between challenging accepted norms and challenging the sovereign itself, a distinction crucial to the Declaration of Independence, must be kept alive if Americans are to progress and prosper as a nation. 410 0$aWilliam E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;$v1995. 606 $aAllegiance 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to 606 $aReligion and politics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAllegiance. 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 676 $a323.6/5 700 $aCarter$b Stephen L.$f1954-$0486808 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455457003321 996 $aThe dissent of the governed$92179165 997 $aUNINA