This group includes the schemers, rabble-rousers, and warmongers. ... Some other demagogues include Bilbo, a senator and governor that dominated Mississippi politics for almost 20 years, Huey Long, a politician in Louisiana, and Joseph McCarthy, a ruthless senator that used peoples" fear of communism to boost his own image. ... Also, although the poverty rate was 11.3 percent, a large majority of those in poverty were minorities. ...

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This proves his point that minorities for example the Native Americans, are not a "degenerate" type of humanity, but in time will climb the ladder of civilization. ... If this nation is to remain free and secure, Jefferson would tell us that the common people, though in these days would include minorities, themselves take responsibility to keep it on the right track. ...

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Most Americans are not only liberals, in the classical sense of believing in individual liberty, but are also democrats since they believe in equality, majority rule, with recognition of the rights of minorities, and government that is responsive and responsible to a broad electorate. Democracy also includes freedom of speech, press, and assembly; freedom to form opposition political parties and to run for office; commitment to individual dignity and to equal opportunities for people to develop their full potential. ...

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The Jacksonian era was one that lived with democracy, or so the Jacksonians claimed. In many of their efforts to preserve the said democracy they in fact might have been destroying it. Many of the ideas of Jackson differed from those of the people, which he claimed to hold in the highest regard. ...

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Most Americans were not only democrats, but in the classical sense of believing in individual liberty, they were also liberals since they believed in equality, majority rule, with recognition of the rights of minorities, and government that is responsive and responsible to a broad electorate. Democracy also includes freedom of speech, press, and assembly; freedom to form opposition political parties and to run for office, commitment to individual dignity and to equal opportunities for people to develop their full potential. ...

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