The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic RuleIn The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule, Roger M. Barrus and his coauthors embark on a discussion of American democracy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The present paradox democracy finds itself in can be summed up as 'the best of times and the worst of times.' Democracy, at its best, has triumphed throughout the world. It is the authors contention that this same success represents the potential for its undoing: with all governments claiming to be democratic, modern democrats-and this includes just about everyone-find it difficult if not impossible to understand the nature and problems of democracy. Since most everyone lives within a democratic horizon, they have nothing to compare democracy to and no one to point out its faults. In this way, they are hampered in dealing with their social and political problems, some of which may be the result of contradictions inherent in the democratic principle itself. The solution to democracy's ills might not be, after all, more democracy. |
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... Missouri Compromise of 1820 , which prohibited slavery in the Chapter 2 Abraham Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom.
... Missouri Compromise of 1820 , which prohibited slavery in the Chapter 2 Abraham Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom.
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... Missouri Compromise of 1820 , which prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Pur- chase north of latitude 36o 30 ' . The Missouri Compromise was repealed , how- ever , by the Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 , and declared unconstitutional in ...
... Missouri Compromise of 1820 , which prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Pur- chase north of latitude 36o 30 ' . The Missouri Compromise was repealed , how- ever , by the Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 , and declared unconstitutional in ...
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... compromise his principles and obey the law . Once in power , he would show ... compromise and above all for obedience to the law . His thought on these needs ... Missouri . He left the Lovejoy murder in the background in order to calm his ...
... compromise his principles and obey the law . Once in power , he would show ... compromise and above all for obedience to the law . His thought on these needs ... Missouri . He left the Lovejoy murder in the background in order to calm his ...
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... Missouri Compromise was intended to contain the fanaticism on both sides . SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES Lincoln was a successful state politician in the late 1830s and the 1840s , winning four terms in the Illinois legislature and one in ...
... Missouri Compromise was intended to contain the fanaticism on both sides . SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES Lincoln was a successful state politician in the late 1830s and the 1840s , winning four terms in the Illinois legislature and one in ...
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... Compromise of 1850 , in large part through the influence of Henry Clay , who was also the architect of the Missouri Compromise . It admitted California as a free state , while organizing Utah and New Mexico as territories under the ...
... Compromise of 1850 , in large part through the influence of Henry Clay , who was also the architect of the Missouri Compromise . It admitted California as a free state , while organizing Utah and New Mexico as territories under the ...
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