The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over educatio |
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
English Subjects and Citizens from the Reformation through the Glorious Revolution | xxi |
Freedom and Citizenship in Britain and Its American Colonies | 22 |
Bulwark of Revolutionary Liberty The Recognition of the Informed Citizen | 45 |
Shaping an Informed Citizenry for a Republican Future | 81 |
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry and the Mobilization of Institutions 18201850 | 115 |
Testing the Meaning of an Informed Citizenry 18201870 | 150 |
Looking Backward The Idea of an Informed Citizenry at the End of the Twentieth Century | 192 |
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