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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Publication date
March 10, 2014
Pages
230
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781621572022
ISBN-10
1621572021
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Original list price
$27.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political life. The less we have of it the better.
Democracy” is not synonymous with freedom.” It is not the opposite of tyranny. In fact, the Founding Fathers knew that democracy can lead to tyranny. That’s why they built so many safeguards against it into the Constitution.
Democracy, Harsanyi argues, has made our government irrational, irresponsible, and invasive. It has left the American people with only two optionsdomination by the majority or a government that can’t possibly work.
The modern age has imbued democracy with the mystique of infallibility. But Harsanyi reminds us that the vast majority of political philosophers, including the founders, have thought that responsible, limited government based on direct majority rule over a large, let alone continental scale was a practical impossibility.
In The People Have Spoken, you’ll learn:
Harsanyi warns that if we don’t recover the Founders’ republican vision, democracy” might very well spell the end of American liberty and prosperity.
Democracy” is not synonymous with freedom.” It is not the opposite of tyranny. In fact, the Founding Fathers knew that democracy can lead to tyranny. That’s why they built so many safeguards against it into the Constitution.
Democracy, Harsanyi argues, has made our government irrational, irresponsible, and invasive. It has left the American people with only two optionsdomination by the majority or a government that can’t possibly work.
The modern age has imbued democracy with the mystique of infallibility. But Harsanyi reminds us that the vast majority of political philosophers, including the founders, have thought that responsible, limited government based on direct majority rule over a large, let alone continental scale was a practical impossibility.
In The People Have Spoken, you’ll learn:
- Why the Framers of our Constitution were intent on establishing a republic, not a democracy”
- How democracy undermines self-government
- How shockingly out of touch with reality most voters really are
- Why democracy is an economic wrecking balland an invitation to a politics of envy and corruption
- How the great political philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Burke and Tocqueville predicted with uncanny accuracy that democracy could lead to tyranny
Harsanyi warns that if we don’t recover the Founders’ republican vision, democracy” might very well spell the end of American liberty and prosperity.
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9781621572022 | details & prices | 230 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $27.99
About: Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained?
About: Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained?
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