Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Everyday Problems of American Democracy
Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Everyday Problems of American Democracy
Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Everyday Problems of American Democracy
Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Everyday Problems of American Democracy
Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
It's Gotten So, Everyone Thinks They're Someone
Author: Everyday Problems of American Democracy. New edition
Author: John Thomas GREENAN (and MEREDITH (Albert Barrett))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Tests for Everyday Problems of American Democracy
Author: John Thomas GreenanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Problems in American Democracy
Author: Thames WilliamsonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Problems in American Democracy" by Thames Williamson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Author: Kyle G. VolkPublisher:
ISBN: 0199371911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, he shows how a motley but powerful array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Proponents justified these measures with the "democratic" axiom of majority rule. In response, immigrants, black northerners, abolitionists, liquor dealers, Catholics, Jews, Seventh-day Baptists, and others articulated a different vision of democracy requiring the protection of minority rights. These moral minorities prompted a generation of Americans to reassess whether "majority rule" was truly the essence of democracy, and they ensured that majority tyranny would no longer be just the fear of elites and slaveholders. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth-century, minority rights became the concern of a wide range of Americans attempting to live in an increasingly diverse nation. Volk reveals that driving this vast ideological reckoning was the emergence of America's tradition of popular minority-rights politics. To challenge hostile laws and policies, moral minorities worked outside of political parties and at the grassroots. They mobilized elite and ordinary people to form networks of dissent and some of America's first associations dedicated to the protection of minority rights. They lobbied officials and used constitutions and the common law to initiate "test cases" before local and appellate courts. Indeed, the moral minorities of the mid-nineteenth century pioneered fundamental methods of political participation and legal advocacy that subsequent generations of civil-rights and civil-liberties activists would adopt and that are widely used today.
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