Concept
Jacksonian democracy
Overview
19th-century American political philosophy
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American democratic polity was developed out of genuine community life, that is, association in local and small centers where industry was mainly agricultural and where production was carried on mainly with hand tools. It took form when English political habits and legal institutions worked under pioneer conditions. The forms of association were stable, even though their units were mobile and migratory.
John Dewey, The public and its problems
Close in meaning to Jacksonian democracy; the term itself is not named.
Let us now turn to the revolution which took place in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the country of "democracy"--in the United States of North America. Although the question was not the abolition of property altogether, but only of the abolition of property in negroes, nevertheless, the institutions of democracy proved absolutely powerless to decide the argument in a peaceful way. The southern states…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Close in meaning to Jacksonian democracy; the term itself is not named.
A body politic of this kind is called a Democracy, which may be defined as a society which wields all its power as a whole. The sovereign power is not restrained by any laws, but every one is bound to obey it in all things; such is the state of things implied when men either tacitly or expressly handed over to it all their power of…
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
States what Jacksonian democracy is.
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.