Challenges to democracy : consensus and extremism in American politics (Record no. 9976)

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Classification number 321.40973 Hav
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Personal name Havens, Murray Clark
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Title Challenges to democracy : consensus and extremism in American politics
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Calcutta
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Scientific Book Agency
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Extent 119 p.
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Summary, etc. THE ASSASSINATION of President Kennedy, the tension of current racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raise critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States.<br/>The American consensus, as Professor Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures which most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility.<br/><br/>Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but so long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Democracy
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2020-02-02 GSL   321.40973 Hav 10912 2020-02-02 2020-02-02 Books

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