A Politics of All

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In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by "the people" to obtain freedom and equality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Ancient Greek Polis: Civic Education, Questioning, and the Staging of the Political Chapter 2: The Unwritten Law: Perpetual Reconstitution in Saxon Britain Chapter 3: Politics Without Centralized Government: Political Power and Happiness in Indigenous Societies Chapter 4: Eruptive Democracy: Challenging the Federal Republic Chapter 5: Divide the Counties into Wards: A Politics of All