Along with a thorough discussion of British, French, and American democracy and 19th century land acts, the author also discusses aspects of religious liberty and democracy throughout the world. The work 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.

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY VOL 2 CL

LECKY, WILLAIM EDWARD HARTPOLE

Liberty Fund, Inc.

Democracy and Liberty is the most thorough manual of conservative politics produced during the nineteenth century. — Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind "When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared." So wrote the Irish-born historian, W. E. H. Lecky (1838–1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy. Lecky spoke for the landed gentry and the upper middle classes of late Victorian England when he warned his countrymen that an unfettered democracy would destroy the balance of interests in the community and thereby undermine the Constitution. "A tendency to democracy," said Lecky, "does not mean a tendency to parliamentary government, or even a tendency toward greater liberty." Indeed, the type of democracy emerging in Britain seemed to be the rudiment of socialism.

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY VOL 2 PB

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by LECKY, WILLAIM EDWARD HARTPOLE. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by LECKY, WILLAIM EDWARD HARTPOLE

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by LECKY, WILLAIM EDWARD HARTPOLE. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY VOL 2 CL

DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY VOL 2 PB