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The colonial American origins of modern democratic thought /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The colonial American origins of modern democratic thought // J.S. Maloy.
Author:	Maloy, J. S.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Democracy - History. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509711
ISBN:	9780511509711 (ebook)

The colonial American origins of modern democratic thought /
Maloy, J. S.1974-

The colonial American origins of modern democratic thought /J.S. Maloy. - 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : accountability and democratic theory -- Radical trust and accountability in the seventeenth century -- Fidelity and accountability in Virginia and Bermuda -- Politics and ecclesiastics in Plymouth and Massachusetts -- Constitutional conflict and political argument at Boston -- Democratic constitutionalism in Connecticut and Rhode Island -- Conclusion : Anglophone radicalism and popular control.

This first examination in almost forty years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more generally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinking about democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America and France in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New England colonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of this democratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popular sovereignty through regular elections but also the principle of accountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditing and impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutional identity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought has misplaced the sense of robust popular control which originally animated it.

ISBN: 9780511509711 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802913
Democracy
--History.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: JC421 / .M33 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8

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