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100 1 $aHoebeke, C. H.$q(Christopher Hyde),$d1960-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe road to mass democracy :$boriginal intent and the Seventeenth Amendment /$cC.H. Hoebeke.
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group,$c2017.
300 $a1 online resource
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500 $aOriginally published in 1995 by Transaction Publishers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 2, 2017).
520 2 $a"Until 1913 and passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, US senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people. Progressive Era reformers urged this revision in answer to the corruption of state "machines" under the dominance of party bosses. They also believed that direct elections would make the Senate more responsive to popular concerns regarding the concentrations of business, capital, and labor that in the industrial era gave rise to a growing sense of individual voicelessness. Popular control over the higher affairs of government was thought to be possible, since the spread of information and communications technology was seen as rendering indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However sincerely such reasons were advanced, C.H. Hoebeke contends, none of them accorded with the original intent of the Constitution's framers. The driving force behind the Seventeenth Amendment was the furtherance of democracy?exactly what the founders were trying to prevent in placing the Senate out of direct popular reach. Democracy was not synonymous with liberty as it is today, but simply meant the absolute rule of the majority. In full reaction to the egalitarian theories of the Enlightenment, and to the excesses of popular government under the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution's framers sought a "mixed" Constitution, an ancient ideal under which democracy was only one element in a balanced republic. Accordingly, only the House of Representatives answered immediately to the people. But as Hoebeke demonstrates, the states never resisted egalitarian encroachments, and had settled for popular expedients when electing both presidents and senators long before the formal cry for amendment. The Progressives' charge that a corrupt and unresponsive Senate could never be reformed until placed directly in the hands of the people was refuted by the amendment itself. As required by the Constitutio"--Provided by publisher.
505 0 $aChapter 1 The Progressive Myth -- chapter 2 A Precarious Balance -- chapter 3 The Tilt in the States -- chapter 4 Federal Repercussions -- chapter 5 The Anomalous Counterweight -- chapter 6 Beveling the Congress -- chapter 7 The Deliberation to End All Deliberations.
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