Governing With One Hand on the Plow: Adding the Voice of Federal Farmer to the Constitutional School of American Public Administration

The constitutional school of American public administration contends that the founding fathers’ intentions for government legitimize our modern administrative state. The Constitution and the rhetoric surrounding its ratification are of primary importance to this school. Federal Farmer was one of the...

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Constitutions
Ethics
Farmers
Fathers
Governance
Government and politics
Legitimacy
Political ethics
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