We the fallen people : the founders and the future of American democracy

We the fallen people The founders and the future of American democracy

Robert Tracy McKenzie

Book - 2021

"The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Arguing that we must take an unflinching look at the nature of democracy-and therefore, ourselves-historian Robert Tracy McKenzie explores the ideas of human nature in the history of American democratic thought, from the nation's Founders through the Jacksonian Era and Alexis de Tocqueville"--

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Subjects
Democracy > United States > History.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Common good.
Founding Fathers of the United States.
Political culture > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
Published
Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Robert Tracy McKenzie (author)
Physical Description
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780830852963
  • Prologue: "America is great because ..."
  • Introduction: The consent of the governed
  • Asking different questions
  • "We must take human nature as we find it"
  • "The people thought Gen. Jackson worthy"
  • "A triumph of the virtue of the people"
  • "By permission of the Great Spirit above, and the voice of the people"
  • "The people are incapable of protecting themselves"
  • Puncturing faith in democracy
  • Nurturing hope for democracy
  • We the fallen people : renewing our thinking
  • We the fallen people : transforming our behavior
  • Epilogue: "If America is good ..."

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