The American Commonwealth -Cosimo, Inc., 1. nov. 2007 - 624 sider Volume II covers the party system in American politics. It discusses the pitfalls and benefits of the two-party system that has become entrenched. He describes for those who are unfamiliar with it how American political parties use their power, and explains for the benefit of all how the peculiar American interpretation of political parties came to be. He further delves into the political machine, corruption, and the doling out of favors. Bryce attempts to clarify how Americans, whom he has deemed a generally honorable people, could approve or allow such evils within their system of government without themselves being guilty of corruption and evil. His observations of the American character are deft and may be as informative to Americans themselves as they are to foreign readers. Anyone with an interest in politics or American history will find Bryce's commentary penetratingly insightful. British historian VISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE (1838-1922) attended the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford. He is best known for his scholarship of the Holy Roman Empire. His popular works include Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901) and Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903). |
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THE NATURE OF PUBLIC OPINION | 247 |
GOVERNMENT BY PUBLIC OPINION | 255 |
How PUBLIC OPINION RULES IN AMERICA | 263 |
ORGANS OF PUBLIC OPINION | 270 |
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS | 281 |
CLASSES AS INFLUENCING OPINION | 293 |
LXXXII LOCAL TYPES OF OPINIONEAST WEST AND SOUTH | 307 |
THE ACTION OF PUBLIC OPINION | 317 |
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SPOILS | 131 |
ELECTIONS AND THEIR MACHINERY | 142 |
CORRUPTION | 154 |
THE WAR AGAINST BOSSDOM | 166 |
NOMINATING CONVENTIONS | 175 |
THE NOMINATING CONVENTION AT Work | 185 |
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN | 203 |
THE ISSUES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS | 213 |
FURther ObservATIONS ON NOMINATIONS AND ELEC TIONS | 220 |
TYPES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN | 228 |
WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK OF IT | 237 |
THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY | 335 |
THE FATALISM OF THE MULTITUDE | 344 |
WHEREIN PUBLIC OPINION FAILS | 354 |
WHEREIN PUBLIC OPINION SUCCEEDS | 363 |
PART VILLUSTRATIONS AND REFLECTIONS | 375 |
THE HOME OF THE NATION | 449 |
THE SOUTH SINCE THE | 469 |
FOREIGN POLICY AND TERRITORIAL EXTENSION | 521 |
LAISSEZ FAIRE | 535 |
WOMAN SUFFRAGE | 549 |
THE SUPPOSED FAULTS OF DEMOCRACY | 563 |
THE TRUE FAULTS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY | 581 |
THE STRENGTH OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY | 594 |
How FAR AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IS AVAILABLE | 607 |
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Side 256 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Side 22 - Neither party has anything definite to say on these issues; neither party has any principles, any distinctive tenets. Both have traditions. Both claim to have tendencies. Both have certainly war cries, organizations, interests, enlisted in their support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and policies, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished.
Side 22 - ... country as seriously involving its welfare? This is what a European is always asking of intelligent Republicans and intelligent Democrats. He is always asking because he never gets an answer. The replies leave him in deeper perplexity.
Side 283 - ... which a European palate enjoys. Their capacity for enjoying a joke against themselves was oddly illustrated at the outset of the Civil War, a time of stern excitement, by the merriment which arose over the hasty retreat of the Federal troops at the battle of Bull Run. When William M. Tweed was ruling and robbing New York, and had set on the bench men who were openly prostituting justice, the citizens found the situation so amusing that they almost forgot to be angry.
Side 285 - That the education of the masses is nevertheless a superficial education goes without saying. It is sufficient to enable them to think they know something about the great problems of politics : insufficient to show them how little they know.
Side 282 - Americans are a good-natured people, kindly, helpful to one another, disposed to take a charitable view even of wrongdoers. Their anger sometimes flames up, but the fire is soon extinct. Nowhere is cruelty more abhorred. Even a mob lynching a horse thief in the West has consideration for the criminal, and will give him a good drink of whisky before he is strung up. Cruelty to slaves was unusual while slavery lasted, the best proof of which is the quietness of the slaves during the war when all the...
Side 250 - His acquaintances do the like. Each man believes and repeats certain phrases, because he thinks that everybody else on his own side believes them, and of what each believes only a small part is...
Side 264 - Towering over Presidents and State governors, over Congress and State legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it.
Side 259 - A fourth stage would be reached, if the will of the majority of the citizens were to become ascertainable at all times, and without the need of its passing through a body of representatives, possibly even without the need of voting machinery at all.
Side 286 - They are a moral and well-conducted people. Setting aside the colluvies gentium which one finds in Western mining camps, now largely filled by recent immigrants, and which popular literature has presented to Europeans as far larger than it really is, setting aside also the rabble of a few great cities and the negroes of the South, the average of temperance, chastity, truthfulness, and general probity is somewhat higher than in any of the great nations of Europe.