Portal:Democracy
Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws.
Works
[edit]- Charter of the Forest 1217, by Henry III
- Cast off the Yoke of Bondage, 1381 by John Ball
- An Agreement of the Free People of England 1649, by Levellers
- Two Treatises of Government, 1689, by John Locke
- The Social Contract 1762, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rights of Man 1791, by Thomas Paine
- Chartism, 1840, by Thomas Carlyle
- Democracy in America 1848, by Alexis Tocqueville
- The Chartist's Complaint, 1857, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
20th century
[edit]- The Evolution of Industrial Democracy, c. 1917 by Abner E. Woodruff
- The Chartist Movement, 1918, by Mark Hovell
- The future of democracy, 1918 by Richard Burdon Haldane
- Industrial Democracy, 1920 by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
- Notes on Democracy by H. L. Mencken (1926)
- From Dictatorship to Democracy, 1993 by Gene Sharp
External resources
[edit]- Call number JC421 on the Online Books Page