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One curious aspect of our negligence is that there are very few books to which
we can turn, and particularly few by Americans, that seriously try to enlighten us
about the nature of democracy. If on the contrary we want expositions of the
nature ...
One curious aspect of our negligence is that there are very few books to which
we can turn, and particularly few by Americans, that seriously try to enlighten us
about the nature of democracy. If on the contrary we want expositions of the
nature ...
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It is within the mission of democracy, and entirely congenial to its nature, that it
should remove the insidious inequalities that frustrate and balk the fulfilments
men are capable of, the inequalities that arise from cramped circumstances, from
the ...
It is within the mission of democracy, and entirely congenial to its nature, that it
should remove the insidious inequalities that frustrate and balk the fulfilments
men are capable of, the inequalities that arise from cramped circumstances, from
the ...
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The aristocratic claim takes a variety of forms according to the nature or the
source of the superiority accredited with the right to rule. We may distinguish the
following types and subtypes. Type One: the aristocracy of the breed. The generic
...
The aristocratic claim takes a variety of forms according to the nature or the
source of the superiority accredited with the right to rule. We may distinguish the
following types and subtypes. Type One: the aristocracy of the breed. The generic
...
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Contents
Our Neglected Heritage | 3 |
Liberty Equality and Fraternity | 12 |
Ill J The Rule of the People | 22 |
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| Title | The ramparts we guard |
| Author | Robert Morrison MacIver |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Sep 2010 |
| Length | 152 pages |
| Subjects | Democracy |
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