The Promise of American Life ...Transaction Publishers, 2004 - 468 pages |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Federalists and the Republicans | 27 |
The Democrats and the Whigs | 52 |
CHAPTER IV | 72 |
CHAPTER V | 100 |
CHAPTER VI | 141 |
Reconstruction j Its Conditions and Purposes | 176 |
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Page 455 - If a noble and civilized democracy is to subsist, the common citizen must be something of a saint and something of a hero. We see, therefore, how justly flattering and profound, and at the same time how ominous, was Montesquieu's saying that the principle of democracy is virtue.