As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.


The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology (ed. Indiana University Press, 1998) - ISBN: 9780253211859

John Dewey Quotes

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some...

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some...

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some...

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some...