Democracy in America, Volume 1
Alexis de Tocqueville · English
Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of Democracy in America in 1835, after travelling through the United States in 1831 and 1832.
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Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of Democracy in America in 1835, after travelling through the United States in 1831 and 1832. Struck above all by the general equality of conditions, he set out to explain how American democracy works. This volume covers the geography of North America and the origins of the Anglo-Americans, the sovereignty of the people, township and state government, the judiciary, the federal constitution, parties, the press and political associations. Later chapters weigh the advantages of democracy, the tyranny of the majority and the forces that restrain it, and end with a study of the future of the three races in the United States.
Democracy in America, Volume 1
Alexis de Tocqueville · English
Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of Democracy in America in 1835, after travelling through the United States in 1831 and 1832.
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Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact ext
Pagera Editor's Note
Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of Democracy in America in 1835, after travelling through the United States in 1831 and 1832. Struck above all by the general equality of conditions, he set out to explain how American democracy works. This volume covers the geography of North America and the origins of the Anglo-Americans, the sovereignty of the people, township and state government, the judiciary, the federal constitution, parties, the press and political associations. Later chapters weigh the advantages of democracy, the tyranny of the majority and the forces that restrain it, and end with a study of the future of the three races in the United States.
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