WHY WAS ANDREW JACKSON SUCH A PERSONALLY POWERFUL EMBODIMENT OF THE NEW MASS DEMOCRACY IN THE 1820'S AND 1830'S? WOULD MASS DEMOCRACY HAVE DEVELOPED WITHOUT A POPULAR HERO LIKE JACKSON?
Andrew Jackson - Why was Andrew Jackson such a personally powerful embodiment of the new mass democracy in the 1820s and 1830s? Would mass democracy have developed without a popular hero like Jackson?
Popular democracy is briefly examined. - Features of colonial politics that contributed to the development of popular democracy are explained. It also infers what kept political life from being more truly democratic.
The slow pace of a representative republic is debated. - Is our form of representative republic designed to be intentionally slow? Or is the speed of the process simply a negative draw back of democracy? These questions are posed.
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Why is the study of history meaningful? How is an understanding of history related to the health of a democracy