John Dewey: “Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian political ideas are not merely theories dwelling in the human mind remote from facts of…”

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.