Presentation drawing of “The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World,” by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, 1875. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014.

Democracy

Volume XIII, Number 4 | fall 2020

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Uncivil Liberty

Lewis H. Lapham

A Story of Use and Abuse

Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Nongoloza’s Ghost

Sisonke Msimang

Our Chief Danger

William Hogeland

Hiding in Plain Sight

David Graeber and David Wengrow

In the People’s House There Are Many Mansions

Thomas Geoghegan

Map

American Neoclassic

Miscellany

Exceedingly despotic.

Taking the temperature.

A nineteenth-century attack ad.

A house divided can still vote.

Operating expense.

Please sir, I want some more.

Political fashion criticism is eternal.

A whiff of freedom.

A republic, not a democracy.

The man that was used up.

Starting a newsletter in Ancient Rome.

The people’s court.

President for life.

Margin of error.

The court of disputed returns.

Voices In Time

Common Denominator

1908 | London

Going Through the Motions

c. 355 BC | Athens

Tallying Votes

c. 500 BC | Shravasti

Natural Resources

1882 | Camden, NJ

Persuasion

1895 | Paris

Gerrymandering Made Easy

2011 | National Harbor, MD

Distributing the Spoils

1651 | Surrey

Steer Clear of Faction

1787 | New York City

Not My Democracy

1814 | Quincy, MA

Maritime Law

c. 1720 | Atlantic Ocean

Old School

1918 | Tokyo

Paper Trail

1835 | Paris

Battleground State

1834 | Moyamensing, PA

The New Pope

1404 | Rome

Mutual Antipathy

c. 1817 | Paris

Take It from the Top

c. 575 BC | Rome

Thank You for Your Lip Service

1920 | London

Friend Zone

c. 1020 | Iceland

Voter Fraud

1982 | Chicago

Minority Rule

1919 | New York City

Remember the Ladies

1837 | Brookline, MA

Class Unconsciousness

1886 | Pittsburgh

Referendum

c. 1451 | Onondaga Lake

Uses of Power

1922 | New York City

Constitutional Intent

1860 | Glasgow

Questions of Principle

1880 | Washington, DC

Electoral Tampering

1970 | Santiago

Political Education

1928 | Washington, DC

Charts and Graphs

Dark Horse Candidates

Democratic Dynasties

Campaign Lit

Object Lessons

Blank Canvas

Measuring Democracy

Novel Constitutions

Divine Assemblies

In a Landslide

Political Animals

Contributors

Conversations

Charles Brockden Brown & Alice Duer Miller

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