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We the Fallen People - The Founders and the Future of American Democracy (Hardcover)
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We the Fallen People - The Founders and the Future of American Democracy (Hardcover)
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Christianity Today Book Award The Gospel Coalition Book Awards
Honorable Mention Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
The success and survival of American democracy have never been
guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities,
the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting
majority have waxed and waned ever since the time of the Founders,
and there are no fail-safe solutions to secure the benefits of a
democratic future. What we must do, argues the historian Robert
Tracy McKenzie, is take an unflinching look at the very nature of
democracy-its strengths and weaknesses, what it can promise, and
where it overreaches. And this means we must take an unflinching
look at ourselves. We the Fallen People presents a close look at
the ideas of human nature to be found in the history of American
democratic thought, from the nation's Founders through the
Jacksonian Era and Alexis de Tocqueville. McKenzie, following C. S.
Lewis, claims there are only two reasons to believe in majority
rule: because we have confidence in human nature-or because we
don't. The Founders subscribed to the biblical principle that
humans are fallen and their virtue is always doubtful, and they
wrote the US Constitution to frame a republic intended to handle
our weaknesses. But by the presidency of Andrew Jackson, contrary
ideas about humanity's inherent goodness were already taking deep
root among Americans, bearing fruit in such perils as we now face
for the future of democracy. Focusing on the careful reasoning of
the Founders, the seismic shifts of the Jacksonian Era, and the
often misunderstood but still piercing analysis of Tocqueville's
Democracy in America, McKenzie guides us in a conversation with the
past that can help us see the present-and ourselves-with new
insight.
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