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American democracy : American founders, presidents, and enlightened philosophers

Hodge, Kyle(With)DePlato, Justin P.(Edited by)
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Following the Renaissance, democracy was still considered a dangerous form of government.

Democracy was often regarded as a fool’s folly and a madman’s paradise.

The well-wishers of the Republican Government would have fanciful debates in intellectual circles, but paternal monarchies dominated the western and eastern world.

Yet in a heroic and herculean way, a group of Anglo-Saxons, who grew up under proud monarchies, rose to dethrone the English Crown and to establish the greatest democracy in history.

What theories inspired these men? Why didn’t they just simply create an American King? Or better yet, make themselves kings? The answers to these questions lie in the eloquent and exact writings of great American Founders, Presidents, and Enlightened Philosophers such as: James Madison, George Clinton, Edmund Randolph, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Rush, John Hancock, John Jay, Cicero, Aristotle, John Locke, Hugo Grotius, John Winthrop, Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Ronald Reagan and more.

Unlike other rulers, American rulers are bound to the law.

There is no doubt that the Founding of America is an event of unparalleled greatness.

This book allows the reader to share in the dreams and thoughts of these great men, in their own words, and allows the reader to draw informed conclusions that they surmise from reading the primary documents.

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Lexington Books
1498503241 / 9781498503242
Paperback / softback
320.473
28/09/2015
United States
English
680 pages