Managing the Nation
Jonathan Parry, 18 March 2021
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition
by Edmund Fawcett.
Princeton, 525 pp., £30, October 2020,978 0 691 17410 5 Show More
by Edmund Fawcett.
Princeton, 525 pp., £30, October 2020,
“... But it was also from the outset an idea with a conservative aspect, most famously articulated by James Madison in the debates about the United States constitution, when he argued that a national government was better placed than individual state legislatures to mitigate the petty selfishness of local interests and popular pressure groups, and that therefore ... ”