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The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America, a political essay written by American republican author James Fenimore Cooper, was published initially in New York State in 1838.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party, and the two parties have dominated American politics ever since. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828.
The American Democrat is two things: an attempt to explain the American political system as it was originally designed, with comparisons of representative democracy to monarchy, aristocracy and mob rule (which, at the time of the book's writing, American democracy was degenerating into); and a relatively scattershot collection of Cooper's ...
Cooper (1789-1851) looks at the American experiment with the advantage of hindsight and consular service in Europe (neither Hamilton nor Madison was ever abroad) and he sees that a number of the Founders were justified in their apprehension that the democratic republic would soon become a republican-type democracy.
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The American Democrat by James Fenimore Cooper is a provocative exposé on American politics that will amuse, shock, and offend contemporary readers - just as it did when originally published in 1835. It depicts a country teetering on the edge of sacrificing the principles of the American Revolution on the altar of parochial interests.
