Strengthening Constitutional Self-Government

No Left Turns

The Founding

James Madison v. Carl Schmitt

Harvey Mansfield defends Madisonian republicanism against an ill-conceived (albeit well-intended) critique of the administrative state and its abandonment of the separation of powers.  The founders, Mansfield points out, are far more thoughtful than Carl Schmitt, a political theorist who came to support Hitler.
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