The Spirit Of Democracy - Hardcover

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Demoobaoy, as defined by A braham Lincolii Government of the people, for the people, and by the people, dates from the middle, or latter part, of the eighteenth century. The short-lived Athenian democracy, says Sir Henry Sumner Maine, under whose shelter art, science, and philosophy shot so wonderfully upwards, was only an aristocracy which rose on the ruins of one much narrower. The early Roman Republic was republic only in name, and although in its subsequent history the power of the people was considerably enlarged, there never was a time when Rome was truly governed either by the people or in their interests. That democracy, in the modem sense of the term, is essentially modem, is indicated by the fact that the two oldest buildings devoted to government assemblies which represent the people, are both of them in A merica. It is of democracy in its modem sense that I treat in tU svolume. Sir Henry Maine affirms that democracy is simply and solely a form of government. In this volume I assume that it is something more.
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