The concept of 'democracy' as used by Tocqueville in "Democracy in America", according to Stephen Holmes, is regarded bilaterally, and alternates from being a "social arrangement" – based on "social leveling", "the collapse of legally maintained class hierarchies" – to being a "political system"– constructed on the idea of "self-government" that produces "institutions guaranteeing that rulers remain responsible to electoral majorities" 6. The differentiation between these two types of what I woul...

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Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. ... The Jacksonians' basic policy thrust, both in Washington and in the states, was to rid government of class biases and dismantle the top-down, credit-driven engines of the market revolution. ... The people's best weapons were equal rights and limited government "ensuring that the already wealthy and favored classes would not enrich themselves further by commandeering, enlarging, and then plundering public institut...

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Article 35(1) of the Ghanaian constitution holds that "sovereignty resides in the people of Ghana from whom government derives all its power and authority through this constitution", this principle as evident in the constitution is upheld in Ghana, nonetheless ignorance has ameliorated its effect on the citizenry and so it is exceptionally and especially recognised during election periods after which the "elected" belittle and override the power of the electorate. ... Adding to the above, just as Held purported in 2006 that the ancient democratic city-state attempted to ena...

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