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We the Fallen People : The Founders and the Future of American Democracy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenzie, Robert Tracy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Exceptionalism--United States.
- Exceptionalism.
- Common good.
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- We the Fallen People
- Place of Publication:
- Westmont : InterVarsity Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 ..."
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780830852970
- 0830852972
- OCLC:
- 1266904919
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