Democracy: Electoral and Athenian.

PS: Political Science & Politics | September 1, 1993| | Copyright

The third-century Christian convert, Tertullian, once asked, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" A twentieth-century American political scientist might ask, What has Athens to do with Washington? In both cases the answer is not as obvious as the rhetorical question would imply. Historically, revelation's identity depended on its contrast with reason even as it sought reason's discredit. American democracy has always been dogged by a so-called Founding whose Fathers never intended a democracy and were scathing in their opinion of "the turbulent democracies of ancient ...

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