American Enterprise Institute

Democracy and the American Revolution

Democracy, Freedom, and the Declaration of Independence Notes

  1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition, ed. Robert Pierce Forbes (1785; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022), 249–50.
  2. Thomas Jefferson, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1790 (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1914), 77.
  3. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, ed. Robert B. Strassler and trans. Richard Crawley (New York: Free Press, 1998), 253–54.
  4. Aristotle, Politics, Book IV, chapter 11 (1295b4).
  5. Alexander Hamilton et al., The Federalist: The Famous Papers on the Principles of American Government, ed. Benjamin F. Wright (New York: MetroBooks, 2002), 133.
  6. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 3.
  7. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb (London: Penguin Books, 1988), 110–11.
  8. Mill, On Liberty.
  9. Mill, On Liberty.