Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing by Jennifer Greiman
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Overview: What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman’s accomplice?Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of democracy to sovereign power that continues to occupy political theory today.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History, Politics
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