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[14]: 830 Holding that democracy and capitalism were already more or less assured and accepted by voting Americans, Howe portrays a young nation in which the questions of the era revolved around rights and sociopolitical inclusion for women and people of color.
Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with ...
Democracy in America (1835–1840) Notes on Democracy (1926) I'll Take My Stand (1930) Our Enemy, the State (1935) The Managerial Revolution (1941) Ideas Have Consequences (1948) God and Man at Yale (1951) The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) A Choice Not an Echo (1964) Losing Ground (1984) A Conflict of Visions ...
Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a party or candidate for at least the short-term.
Now it seems even more Republicans are getting in line with Trump’s authoritarian ideas. Just one year ago, three in 10 Republican voters told Fox News that they wanted a president “willing to ...
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 is a nonfiction book written by the American historian Gordon S. Wood.Published as a clothbound hardcover in 2009 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book narrates the history of the United States in the first twenty-six years following the ratification of the U. S. Constitution.