Presentation drawing of “The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World,” by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, 1875. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014.

Democracy

Volume XIII, Number 4 | fall 2020

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Black-and-white photograph of protesters, early twentieth century.

Preamble

Uncivil Liberty

Our Chief Danger

By William Hogeland

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.

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American Neoclassic

A visual history of a country’s love of columns.

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Miscellany

In a 1985 election for the Victorian Legislative Council in Australia, candidates Bob Ives and Rosemary Varty tied at 54,281 votes each. Ives won the seat with a casting vote provided by an official who drew Ives’ name from a hat. The Court of Disputed Returns voided the result after determining that forty-four votes had not been counted. Varty won a subsequent special election.