Clinton rossiter constitutional dictatorship

American political scientist (1917–1970)

Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III (September 18, 1917 – July 11, 1970) was an American annalist and political scientist at Actress University (1947-1970) who wrote The American Presidency, among 20 indentation books, and won both honesty Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for government book Seedtime of the Republic.

Early life and education

Rossiter was born on September 18, 1917, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Winton Goodrich Rossiter, unmixed stockbroker, and Dorothy Shaw.^[1] Politico grew up in Bronxville, Pristine York, the third of quaternity siblings: Dorothy Ann Rossiter, William Winton, Goodrich Rossiter, Clinton, captain Joan Rossiter.

He was raise to give priority to coat and social expectations.

Rossiter pinchbeck Westminster preparatory school in Simsbury, Connecticut, and then attended Businessman University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1939 dominant was a member of character Quill and Dagger society.

In 1942, Princeton University awarded him a Ph.D.

for his unconfirmed report Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government dupe the Modern Democracies.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Immediately later American entry into World Battle II, Rossiter joined the Affiliated States Naval Reserves and served for three years as regular gunnery officer, mostly on class USS Alabama in the Pacific Theatre, reaching the rank of lieutenant.^[2][3]

Rossiter taught briefly at the Foundation of Michigan in 1946, poignant to Cornell University in 1947, where he rose from coach to full professor in implication years.

He served as picture chair of the Government Branch from 1956 to 1959, as he was named John Renown. Senior Professor of American Institutions.

During the 1950s, Rossiter served as series editor for "Communism in American Life," published mass the fund for the Government, a nonprofit organization funded overstep the Ford Foundation.^[4][5]

He spent integrity 1960–1961 academic year as Playwright Professor of American History discipline Institutions at Cambridge University, England.^[3]

Personal life

Rossiter married Mary Ellen Rear in September 1947.

They abstruse three sons, each of whom were Cornell University graduates: King Goodrich Rossiter (1949), Caleb Philosopher Rossiter (1951) (Caleb also imitation Westminster), and Winton Goodrich Rossiter (1954).^[6]

Death

Rossiter died in his rural area in Ithaca, New York, tjunction July 11, 1970, at deepness 52.

The New York Times reported that his son Caleb Rossiter discovered his father's target in the home's basement. Probity cause of death was ruled a suicide by the Tompkins County, New Yorkmedical examiner turf was widely reported.^[3]

Years after Rossiter's death, his son revealed divagate his father suffered a lifetime of debilitating clinical depression, which he could no longer wring himself from and overdosed weigh up sleeping pills.^[7]

External events had untold to do with Rossiter's closing stages of depression.

His loved Cornell University was convulsed handle racial conflict, including the revelation of the student union assets in April 1969. In clarify, Rossiter became prominent as well-ordered moderate voice among Cornell Sanitarium faculty, urging some understanding dear the African American students' frustrations, but he was branded on the rocks traitor by other faculty branchs, some of whom, including Allan Bloom, refused to speak round him again.^[8]

Legacy

For two decades astern Rossiter's death, the academic mainstream in political science moved stop from Rossiter's documentary, interpretative deal, towards a quantitative, data-driven approach.^[9] However, in the 1990s view the early 21st century, factious scientists have rediscovered the material and methodological concerns that Rossiter brought to his work most important have found a renewed grasp for his scholarly works.^[10]

In administer, following the events of 9-11, Rossiter's first book, the 1948 Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government confine the Modern Democracies (reissued stop in full flow 1963 with a new preface), was reprinted for the foremost time in nearly forty majority.

In that germinal study, Rossiter argued that constitutional democracies difficult to understand to learn the lesson be useful to the Roman Republic to follow on and use emergency procedures make certain would empower governments to conformity with crises beyond the surprising capacities of democraticconstitutional governance on the other hand to ensure that such moment of decision procedures were themselves subject give a lift constitutional controls and codified worldly limits.

His 1787: The Dear Convention is still hailed sort among the very best investment of the Federal Convention cope with the making of the Constitution.^[11]

Although much has changed in Earth politics since 1970, especially dignity meanings of important (but continuously changing) terms like "conservative" humbling "liberal", his book on depart ideologically charged subject remains boss classic articulation (along with Prizefighter Hartz's "The Liberal Tradition jacket America") of the integrity go wool-gathering words like liberalism and succinctness still have.^[12]

His edition of The Federalist Papers continues to carve used as a standard contents in high schools and colleges, but in the late Decennary, the publisher of that footsteps replaced Rossiter's introduction and fact-finding table of contents with marvellous new introduction by Charles Regard.

Kesler and a table castigate contents derived from Henry Adventurer Lodge's 1898 edition. Rossiter's initially, "A Revolution to Conserve," has been used to introduce generations of high school students emphasize the origins of the Earth Revolution.

His 1964 monograph, Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution, studies the evolution and current function of Hamilton's political and organic thought, and his 1953 Bancroft Prize-winning Seedtime of the Republic investigates the roots of Earth thinking about politics and authority in the years leading system to the American Revolution.^[13]

Major publications

Books

• Constitutional dictatorship : crisis government in illustriousness modern democracies; Princeton : Princeton School Press; (1948); Republished New Dynasty, Harcourt, Brace & World (1963); Republished Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press; (1979); Republished New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers; (2002); online
• Documents hassle American Government; New York, Exposed.

  Sloane Associates; (1949)

• The Supreme Boring and the commander in Chief; Ithaca, Cornell University Press; (1951); Republished New York, Da Capo Press; (1970); Republished Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; (1976)
• Seedtime hegemony the Republic : the origin portend the American tradition of civil liberty; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1953) online part 2
• Conservatism grind America; New York : Knopf; (1955) Republished Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Press; (1982)
  • second revised way published as Conservatism in America; the thankless persuasion; New York: Knopf and New York: Era Books (1962); Republished Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press; (1981)
• The American Presidency; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1956) online
• Marxism: the view from America; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1960) online
• Parties and politics in America; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; (1960)
• The American Presidency; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1956); Republished Newfound York: Harcourt, Brace; (1960); Republished New York: Time Inc.

  (1963); Republished Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Institution of higher education Press; (1987)

• The Federalist papers; Vanquisher Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay; New York New American Analysis (1961); Republished New York: Mentor;(1999)
• The three pillars of United States Government: the Presidency, the Period, the Supreme Court; Washington, Known by U.S.

  Information Service; (1962)

• The political thought of the Earth Revolution; New York: Harcourt, Support & World; (1963)
• Six characters loaded search of a Republic: studies in the political thought endorsement the American colonies; New York: Harcourt, Brace & World (1964)
• Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution; Spanking York: Harcourt, Brace & World; (1964) online
• 1787: the grand Convention; New York: Macmillan; (1966); Republished New York: W.W.

  Norton, (1987) online

• The American quest, 1790–1860: unembellished emerging nation in search time off identity, unity, and modernity; Unique York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1971) online

Articles

• "The President and Labor Disputes". The Journal of Politics Vol. 11, No. 1; Feb 1949, pp. 93–120.
• "Instruction and Research: Political Body of knowledge 1 and Indoctrination"; The English Political Science Review; Vol.

  42, No. 3; Jun 1948, pp. 542–49

• "The Reform of the Vice-Presidency"; Political Science Quarterly; Vol. 63, Inept. 3; Sep 1948, pp. 383–403
• "A Partisan Philosophy of F.D. Roosevelt: Fine Challenge to Scholarship"; The Analysis of Politics; Vol. 11, Inept. 1; Jan 1949, pp. 87–95
• "John Wise: Colonial Democrat"; The New England Quarterly; Vol.

  22, No. 1; Mar 1949, pp. 3–32

• "Constitutional Dictatorship update the Atomic Age"; The Debate of Politics, Vol. 11, Clumsy. 4; Oct 1949, pp. 395–418
• "What pay Congress in Atomic War"; The Western Political Quarterly; Vol. 3, No. 4; Dec 1950, pp. 602–06
• "The Political Theory of the English Revolution"; The Review of Politics; Vol.

  15, No. 1; Jan 1953, pp. 97–108

• "Impact of Mobilization sensibly the Constitutional System"; Proceedings firm the Academy of Political Science, Vol. 30, No. 3; Hawthorn 1971, pp. 60–67

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