What's wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship /

In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Samons, Loren J., II
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pptc6
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Crynodeb:In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:1 online resource (1 volume)
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520940901
0520940903
0520236602
9780520236608
1598750011
9781598750010
141754533X
9781417545339
1282360310
9781282360310
9786612360312
6612360313