Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
- ISBN 13:
9780199371914
- ISBN 10:
0199371911
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/15/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Volk reveals that driving this vast ideological reckoning was the emergence of America's tradition of popular minority-rights politics. To challenge hostile laws and policies, moral minorities worked outside of political parties and at the grassroots. They mobilized elite and ordinary people to form networks of dissent and some of America's first associations dedicated to the protection of minority rights. They lobbied officials and used constitutions and the common law to initiate "test cases" before local and appellate courts. Indeed, the moral minorities of the mid-nineteenth century pioneered fundamental methods of political participation and legal advocacy that subsequent generations of civil-rights and civil-liberties activists would adopt and that are widely used today.