“移动的边疆”对19世纪美国民主政治的影响

The Influence of "the Moving Frontier" on American Democracy Politics of the 19th Century

19世纪美国大陆边疆的向西移动,对民主政治的建立和推行提供了必要的安全条件和经济保障,形成了对民主政治起到催化剂作用的特性文化。同时,对民众民主政治观念产生了积极影响,自由生存、平等竞争的观念成为社会的必然和民主政治的重要内容,而且使政治民主的意识从静态的个体或小群体凝合为流动的集体意识,强化了全美社会的民主政治观念,加速了以反奴隶制和女权运动为代表的民主主义精神的发展。移民在拓荒过程中运用多数决定原则和契约关系构建的法律制度和公共权利,使美国的民主政治有了源自基层的坚实基础。

That American frontier moved to the west from the 19 th Century provides necessary security and financial guarantee to America democracy,forming the characteristic culture of democracy with positive influence on American democracy that free survival and equal competition has been the core of social and democratic politics making it a moving massive sense from the static individual or small groups with the collective awareness thus strengthening the concept of democratic politics and speeding up the development of democracy of anti-slavery and feminist.The legal system and the public right of contractual relations of land reclamation by majority lays solid foundation on American bourgeoisie democracy as the core of various social systems.