Original scientific paper

Universality and Topicality of the Jeffersonian Democracy

Jovan Mirić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

If anyone can be considered the creator of the American democracy and its most influential promotor, it is Thomas Jefferson. The American democracy is deemed Jeffersonian - rightly and doubly so: Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence (1776), the basic political and constitutional act but he also inspired, created and proselytized American democracy all over the world. Tocqueville considered him to be the sturdiest apostle of democracy ever. Jefferson is one of the few scholars and politicians whose belief in the value and possibilites of democracy never wavered. His political credo is that the man is capable of controlling himself. The two centuries of ordeals and tribulations of democracy and the experience of various forms of tyranny testiy to the continual topicality and universality of Jefferson's attitudes.

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Hrčak ID:

111012

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111012

Publication date:

1.6.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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