Government by dissent : protest, resistance, and radical democratic thought in the early American republic /
"Democracy is the rule of the people. But what exactly does it mean for a people to rule? Which practices and behaviors are legitimate, and which are democratically suspect? We generally think of democracy as government by consent; a government of, by, and for the people. This has been true fro...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2013.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Regulation not rebellion : from "rough music" to democratic disorder
- "Secret plodders" : anti-federalism, anonymity, and the struggle for democratic dissent
- Institutionalizing counterpublicity : the democratic societies of the 1790s
- James Madison : public opinion and dissentient democracy
- "Salutary collisions" and multiple discourses : a farmer, two lawyers, and one unknown democrat
- "The saucy sons of enquiry" : Thomas Cooper and democratic dissent.