Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots moral reform in the early nineteenth century, he shows how a motley but powerful array of self-understood minorities reshaped American democracy as they battled laws regulating Sabbath observance, alcohol, and interracial contact. Proponents justified these measures with the democratic axiom of majority rule. In response, immigrants, black n…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-937192-1
- EAN: 9780199371921
- Produktnummer: 16995298
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 32'881 KB
- Abbildungen: 31 illus.
Über den Autor
Kyle G. Volk is a history professor at the University of Montana.
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