How was America founded and on what basis? How has America developed politically and what’s the future of American democracy?
Robert Tracy McKenzie is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois in the States. His new book ‘We the Fallen People – the Founders and the Future of American democracy’ is published by IVP America and available on Amazon and all other good book sellers.
- (1:32) Why America is so deeply divided
- (4:31) Millenials and democracy. Do they value it?
- (6:08) How does history help us move forward? C.S Lewis and democracy
- (8:19) The fallen nature of humanity and our political thinking – ‘we’ll never meet an ordinary human being’.
- (9:26) Humility and charity in our political thinking,
- (9:55) The founding Fathers and the Republic. They realized the fallen nature of humanity and so the need for checks and balances
- (12:08) The founding Fathers and democracy. Did they trust it at all?
(13:39) The importance of virtue to the founding Fathers - (15:08) The Constitution was framed to take into account our fallen and sinful nature
- (17:44) Andrew Jackson and the rise of democracy. A populist with authoritarian tendencies
- (20:46) Tocqueville – why democracy can turn into tyranny
- (21:56) Thinking Christianly about democracy
- (22:58) How should the US move forward?
Links mentioned in today’s episode:
https://www.ivpress.com
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