We the fallen people the founders and the future of American democracy / Robert Tracy McKenzie.

Contents Prologue: "America is great because ..." -- Introduction: The consent of the governed -- Asking different questions -- "We must take human nature as we find it" -- "The people thought Gen. Jackson worthy" -- "A triumph of the virtue of the people" -- "By permission of the Great Spirit above, and the voice of the people" -- "The people are incapable of protecting themselves" -- Puncturing faith in democracy -- Nurturing hope for democracy -- We the fallen people : renewing our thinking -- We the fallen people : transforming our behavior -- Epilogue: "If America is good ..."
Abstract "The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Arguing that we must take an unflinching look at the nature of democracy-and therefore, ourselves-historian Robert Tracy McKenzie explores the ideas of human nature in the history of American democratic thought, from the nation's Founders through the Jacksonian Era and Alexis de Tocqueville"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: McKenzie, Robert Tracy. We the fallen people Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, [2021] 9780830852963
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