Jacksonian America was highly democratic in franchise and weak in coercive state apparatus.

Evidence

The United States of North America, after the electoral reforms of the Jacksonian period, was perhaps the most truly democratic republic the world had ever seen up to that time, and arguably more democratic than any it has seen since. That assertion is based, first, on the lack of significant property restrictions on the franchise among the free population, and, second, on the weakness of the state, that is, the relative absence of administrative organs and bodies of armed men, differentiated from the general population and therefore insulated from politics, charged with maintaining order. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 257

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in category reclassification systems; the franchise expansion/curtailment pairing recurs throughout. — connects to: Colonial America reproduced Old World class hierarchies rather than founding democracy — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1714

Broader Connections

• Colonial America reproduced Old World class hierarchies rather than founding democracy #contradicts (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1714