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a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- The hardy, independent farmers whom Thomas Jefferson considered the bedrock of American democracy are a truly vanishing breed.p. 8.9
- The early twentieth century had trusts, but it also had "trustbusters," progressive government officials who believed that concentrated economic power posed a grave threat to American democracy.p. 137.3
- Instead of symbolizing democracy and freedom, going west meant getting cheap labor.p. 155.8
- The rise of a migrant industrial workforce poses a grave threat to democracy.p. 265.9
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