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  - Filosofía 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  -