Democracy and the American Revolution: We Hold These Truths

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the inaugural volume of an eight-book series, renowned historians and political scientists explore what the contested idea of democracy meant to
those who participated in the American Revolution. For some, democracy
represented a particular way to order government, while others understood democracy to be a transformative principle that would serve as the philosophical bedrock of not just the new republic's political institutions but
its social and cultural ones as well.

Examining the democratic culture that was born out of the American Revolution can help us understand the framework within which we continue to debate the structure and purpose of the system of government that binds us together today.

Author: Yuval Levin
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780844750613

About the Author
Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and
Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he
also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and
editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at the New Atlantis, a
contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times.

Adam J. White is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state.
Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray
Center for the Study of the Administrative State.

John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S.
Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a
visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.