The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought |
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| Author:
| Maloy, J. S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-51438-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.99 |
Book Description:
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Maloy's examination of seventeenth-century American political ideas concludes that the origins of distinctively modern democratic thinking can be located, not in eighteenth-century America and France, but in the tiny New England colonies in the previous century, and that the key idea was not electoral consent but rather non-electoral accountability.
Maloy's examination of seventeenth-century American political ideas concludes that the origins of distinctively modern democratic thinking can be located, not in eighteenth-century America and France, but in the tiny New England colonies in the previous century, and that the key idea was not electoral consent but rather non-electoral accountability.