CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

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Chapter 1

• CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

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Democracy Takes Effort
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Democracy Requires Participation

• The death of democracy is not likely to be an
  assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
  extinction from apathy, indifference, and
  undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins. Great
  Books, 1954

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Democracy Requires Faith in People
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Democracy Requires Healthy Skepticism

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost
  importance to the citizens of a democracy.
  --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. --
  Thomas Jefferson
• Huey LongAn American Demagogue

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Democracy requires sensitivity to and protection
of the rights and opinions of others
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Some Terms

• Constitutional Democracy
• Constitutionalism
• Democracy
• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy
• Republic
• Popular Consent

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VALUES INHERENT IN DEMOCRACY

• Popular Consent
• Respect for the Individual
• Equality of Opportunity
• Personal Liberty

John Locke
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FEATURES OF DEMOCRACY

• Free and Fair Elections Decided by Maj. Rule
• Majority (Plurality) Rule
• Freedom of Expression
• The Right To Assemble And Protest

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CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

• Education
• Economic conditions
• Social Conditions
• Bowling alone
• Ideological Conditions

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ROOTS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

• Articles of Confederation
• Flaws
• Shays Rebellion
• Constitutional Convention
• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• Great Compromise

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Signers of the Constitution
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Ratification Fight

• Federalist Papers
• Bill of Rights