![]() | The Founding Fathers v. the People: paradoxes of American democracy Subjects: United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy; Democracy -- United States; Separation of powers -- United States; Constitutional history -- United States; As pundits and politicians remind us at every election cycle or turn of the television dial, the United States sees itself as the world's greatest democracy. But what citizens might also hear, if they knew how to listen, is the grinding of two tectonic plates on which this democracy was established. In the venerable tradition of keen foreign observers of American politics, Anthony King exposes the political paradoxes in our system that we may well be too close to see--founding principles of our great democracy that are distinctly undemocratic. King Anthony : Anthony King is Professor of Government at the University of Essex and a Fellow of the British Academy. |
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