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Democracy and Liberty: Volume 2 - Hardcover

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

 
9780913966839: Democracy and Liberty: Volume 2
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0913966835 ISBN 13: 9780913966839
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc, 1981

Inhaltsangabe

Democracy and Liberty is the most thorough manual of conservative politics produced during the nineteenth century.

— Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind

"When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared." So wrote the Irish-born historian, W. E. H. Lecky (1838–1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy.

Lecky spoke for the landed gentry and the upper middle classes of late Victorian England when he warned his countrymen that an unfettered democracy would destroy the balance of interests in the community and thereby undermine the Constitution.

"A tendency to democracy," said Lecky, "does not mean a tendency to parliamentary government, or even a tendency toward greater liberty." Indeed, the type of democracy emerging in Britain seemed to be the rudiment of socialism.

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Verlag
Liberty Fund Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1981
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0913966835
ISBN 13 
9780913966839
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
528
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