Ameritopia, the unmaking of America, Mark R. Levin
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Ameritopia, the unmaking of America, Mark R. Levin
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Ameritopia
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Mark R. Levin
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the unmaking of America
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Levin explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations and the crisis that the government faces today
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Introduction -- Part I. On utopianism: the tyranny of utopia; Plato's Republic and the myth of the perfect society; Thomas More's Utopia and the loss of individualism; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all powerful state; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and radical egalitarianism -- Part II. On Americanism: John Locke and the nature of man; the influence of Locke on the founders; Charles Montesquieu and republican government; the influence of Montesquieu on the framers; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America -- Part III. On utopia and America: post-constitutional America; Ameritopia
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