The political power of words : "democracy" and political strategies in the United States and France (1776-1871)
For more than two thousand years, "democracy" had referred to chaos, violence, irrationality and the tyranny of the mob. Almost all the principal founders of what we now call the "democratic" systems of the United States and France openly and proudly proclaimed their oppositio...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12823 |