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- Title
Democracy by scripture versus democracy by process: A reflection on Stephen A. Douglas and...
- Authors
Huston, James L.
- Abstract
Focuses on the debate on democracy which occurred in the United States in 1854 concerning the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Definition of democracy; Senator Stephen A. Douglas' view of democracy; Opposition of New England and Chicago ministers to Douglas' view; Contribution of the moral argument concerning slavery on the democracy debate; Declaration of democracy by scripture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HISTORY of democracy; DOUGLAS, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861; SLAVERY; ETHICS; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Civil War History, 1997, Vol 43, Issue 3, p189
- ISSN
0009-8078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cwh.1997.0079