---
title: 'Popular Education as a Safeguard for Popular Suffrage'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Lewis Dabney'
date: 1880-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Citizenship and Government'
- 'Church and State'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 3'
- 'Romans 13'
- 'Psalms 14'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/dabney-1880-popular-education-as-a-safeguard-for-popular-suffrage
---

# Popular Education as a Safeguard for Popular Suffrage

Argues that popular education alone cannot secure safe suffrage; safeguards require moral restraint (notably Christianity) and constitutional distribution of powers to prevent majority tyranny.

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