TY - BOOK AU - Caivano,Dean TI - A politics of all: Thomas Jefferson and radical democracy T2 - Political theory for today SN - 9781793652591 (pbk.) AV - JC 423 C138p 2023 U1 - 321.8 PY - 2023/// CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Lexington Books KW - Jefferson, Thomas KW - Jefferson, Thomas, KW - Democracy KW - Philosophy KW - Democracia KW - FilosofĂ­a de la democracia N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The ancient Greek polis : civic education, questioning, and the staging of the political -- The unwritten law : perpetual reconstitution in Saxon Britain -- Politics without centralized government : political power and happiness in indigenous societies -- Eruptive democracy : challenging the federal republic -- Divide the counties into wards : a politics of all -- Conclusion N2 - "In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by "the people" to obtain freedom and equality"-- ER -