Along with a thorough discussion of British, French, and American democracy and 19th century land acts, the author also discusses aspects of religious liberty and democracy throughout the world. The work covers American Democracy, reform, attacks on property, democracy as an inevitable fact, Upper Chambers, taxation and its causes, proposals for reforming the House of Lords, Mormonism, religious liberty, Catholicism and democracy in Ireland, Socialism, working practices, emancipation, and more.