The Founding Fathers v. the People : : Paradoxes of American Democracy / / Anthony King.
As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the world's greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on which this democracy was establi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. An Assortment of Puzzles
- 2. Who-and What- Were "the People"?
- 3. The People in the House of Power
- 4. The Exaltation of the People
- 5. The People Move Upstairs
- 6. Two Tectonic Plates, Two Nostalgias
- 7. An Assortment of Solutions
- 8. Democracy in America
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index