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Foundations of democratic theory :England in America, ca.1570--1650

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Foundations of democratic theory :
Reminder of title:	England in America, ca.1570--1650
Author:	Maloy, Jason Stuart.
Description:	318 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard Tuck.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1943.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3131920
ISBN:	0496791605

Foundations of democratic theory :England in America, ca.1570--1650
Maloy, Jason Stuart.

Foundations of democratic theory :England in America, ca.1570--1650 [electronic resource] - 318 p.

Adviser: Richard Tuck.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

This dissertation surveys the political ideas associated with the first three generations of English colonization in America (ca. 1570--1650) and underlines their significance within an original interpretation of the ideological origins of modern democracy emphasizing idioms of trust and ideas of accountability. This analysis has three main conclusions. (1) The conceptual development that made modern democratic theory possible was the recovery of the ancient principle of accountability, using a radicalized language of "trust," and its extension from the extraordinary politics of war and resistance to the ordinary constitutional processes of representative government. (2) This development was most dramatically effected in the English Revolution, but it was prepared and indeed anticipated in the early American colonies. (3) The idea of political founding by a written constitution gave practical effect to this theoretic development, and it emerged---again on both sides of the Atlantic, again in America before England---precisely by dint of radical trust, coupled with a visionary commitment to a "popular state." This intellectual history suggests two up-shots for democratic theory today. First, the principle of accountability is basic to all recorded democratic thought. To the extent, then, that modern theoretic pre-occupations with suffrage and elections neglect the range of institutional mechanisms of accountability available to the ancients and early-moderns, they are not only historically contingent but possibly anti-democratic. Secondly, anglophone radical constitutionalism embodied the ideological alliance of accountability to law and accountability to the people. Thus the seventeenth century is more relevant to "democratization" today than are the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which cultivated the fateful notion of a fundamental opposition between constitutionalism and democracy.

ISBN: 0496791605Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

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