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Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama

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By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved ...

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Democracy's Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama 2014, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California

ISBN-13: 9780817917944

Hardcover