By K. Trautman
One significant occasion in American politics, the Democrats, has consciously pointed out itself with underdogs. This publication analyzes the connection among the occasion and the most political ideology of its base: liberalism.
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44 Moreover, wasn’t the spirit of the American Revolution being violated—that of believing that the people could be trusted with making their own decision about whom they wanted to govern them? Even though the Constitution placed the Electoral College as a potential barrier between majority rule and the election of the president, hadn’t American democracy evolved since 1787? A basic issue in viewing the American political experiment as an underdog concept is whether aristocracy or democracy will actually prevail when a change of regime is near.
A fulfilling life is assumed to be, in significant part, a nurturant life, one committed to family and community responsibility. Self-fulfillment and the nurturance of others are seen as inseparable. 49 Liberal morality, however, cannot f lourish without receptivity: “the world must be as nurturant as possible and respond positively to nurturance. It must be a world that encourages people to develop their potential and provides help when necessary. . ”50 Just how could a world be governed, to the maximum possible extent, by empathy?
He criticized the administration of John Adams in print voraciously as “one continued tempest of malignant passions. ”16 While working in Virginia, Callender was indicted. Eventually he was ordered by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase to pay $200 and sentenced to nine months in jail. 17 Democrats James Madison, James Monroe, and Thomas Jefferson backed Callender’s writings. Jefferson gave money to him. It was Federalist marshals who chose the Federalist jurors who convicted him under the authority of the Federalist Supreme Court Justice Chase.
