Democracy and its critics : Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
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Democracy and its critics : Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
Unwin Hyman, 1989
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 219-226
Includes index
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Description
This is an account of the idea of democracy, centred upon major events and key thinkers of the 19th century, including Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and William Morris.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: traditions of democratic thought
- liberty and equality
- America - Republican virtue and the role of religion
- Britain - history and the habit of deference
- majority rule
- dimensions of democracy. Part 2 The democratic debate in America: the founding of the American republic
- a republican constitution
- the separation of powers and federalism
- "The Federalist" and factions
- slavery and democracy
- the electoral system
- the party system
- democracy's critics - why should numbers count for more?
- John C.Calhoun (1782-1850)
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
- interpretations of the democratic ideal
- Abraham Lincoln and the moral implications of democracy
- Walt Whitman and the cultural impulse of democracy
- Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Lloyd and the economic imperative of democracy. Part 3 The democratic debate in Britain: preparing for democracy - the British Constitution 1789-1832
- the idea of the constitution and the continuity of change
- Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine - reform and revolution
- Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and the utilitarian alternative
- Lord Macaulay and the defence of balance
- a grudging acceptance of the people's right to vote
- a people's Magna Carta
- John Stuart Mill, Walter Bageot and Matthew Arnold
- the problem of the working-class voter
- democracy's critics - outsiders looking on
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
- William Morris (1834-1896). Part 4 Conclusion: democracy, values and ideology
- equality and liberty
- the problem of the majority
- democracy and ideology.
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