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A work that covers American Democracy, reform, attacks on property, democracy as an inevitable fact, Upper Chambers, taxation and its causes, proposals for reforming the House of Lords, Mormonism, religious liberty, Catholicism and democracy in Ireland, Socialism, working practices, emancipation, and more.Excerpt from Democracy and Liberty, Vol. 1Other influences than pure democracy have no doubt contributed to these things, but no competent judge will deny that the connection is real and close, nor can it be doubted that they have greatly increased through out Europe the distrust of parliamentary institutions. On the other side of the Atlantic Brazil, which during the period of its empire was a model of financial sol vency and integrity, has passed, as was predicted in this work, and without the pressure of any foreign war, into the ranks of defaulting States.
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Democracy and Liberty, William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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- 1981
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- Title
- Democracy and Liberty
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 502
- ISBN10
- 0913966851
- ISBN13
- 9780913966853
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- Description
- A work that covers American Democracy, reform, attacks on property, democracy as an inevitable fact, Upper Chambers, taxation and its causes, proposals for reforming the House of Lords, Mormonism, religious liberty, Catholicism and democracy in Ireland, Socialism, working practices, emancipation, and more.Excerpt from Democracy and Liberty, Vol. 1Other influences than pure democracy have no doubt contributed to these things, but no competent judge will deny that the connection is real and close, nor can it be doubted that they have greatly increased through out Europe the distrust of parliamentary institutions. On the other side of the Atlantic Brazil, which during the period of its empire was a model of financial sol vency and integrity, has passed, as was predicted in this work, and without the pressure of any foreign war, into the ranks of defaulting States.