A Comparative Essay

After reading America’s Constitutional Soul, by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., and The True and Only Heaven, by Christopher Lasch, I came to the realization that while they have varying ideas on many topics, they have similar conservative views regarding citizenship and civil rights. Specifically, Mansfield discusses his belief that people are best served through a representative government and does not believe that all citizens should be allowed to rule directly (Mansfield 141). In this regard, …showed first 75 words of 1344 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1344 total…relationships” and that true equality is really only attained by maintaining a sense of “dignity of inferiors and by restraining the pride of the superiors” (Mansfield 194). Lasch and Mansfield seem to agree on these issues even though their perspectives are so different, with Lasch discussing them from more of a social science level and Mansfield discussing them in terms of policy and form and both with more than a hint of conservatism in their thinking.