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The Future of Representative Democracy

 
       

 

Classic Texts on Representative Democracy


 

Aristotle The Athenian Constitution - read here
   
Edmund Burke

Speech to the Electors of Bristol, on his being declared by the Sheriffs duly elected (3 Nov. 1774) in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. 6 vols. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854—56, vol 1, pp. 446-48 - download here

 

   

Marquis de Condorcet

(Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat)

Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain - read here
   

ENCYCLOPÉDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES

 

Vol.14, 1765 Entry : Représentans (pp.143-146) - read here
David Hume Of the Original Contract
   
Thomas Jefferson

Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, Monticello, August 26, 1816: read here, see image here.

   
John Locke Second Treatise, §§ 157–58
   
Ernst Renan What is a Nation? - read here
   
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Du Contrat Social ou Principes du Droit Politique- read original here
 
The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right - read english translation here
   
  Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes - read original here
   
Joseph Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1976) - preview e-book here
   
Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America, Vol 1 and Vol 2

 

   
   
   
   

 


 

 

 

 

 

 
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