Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as direct democracy, and "Republic" was used ...

Jacksonian democracy, he concludes, failed to “codify” its deviations from the antistatist tradition and in so doing left American liberalism impotent in the post-Civil War period, when a ...

From justified fury to impotence: That about sums up the tragic cycle of American populism, from the early republic down to our time. So it was, all too often, with Jacksonian democracy and the ...