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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexis de Tocqueville; Henry Reeve; Bruce Frohnen |
ISBN: | 089526160X 9780895261601 |
OCLC Number: | 52253767 |
Notes: | Originally published: London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. |
Description: | xliii, 703 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Exterior form of North America -- Social condition of the Anglo-Americans -- Principle of the sovereignty of the people in America -- Necessity of examining the condition of the states before that of the union at large -- Public spirit of the townships of New England -- Judicial power in the United Sates, and its influence on political society -- Political jurisdiction in the United States -- The federal constitution -- Why thepoeple may strictly be said to govern in the United States -- Parties in the United States -- Liberty of the press in the United States -- Government of the democracy in America -- Charges levied by the state under the rule of the American democracy -- What the real advantages are which American society derives from the government of the democracy -- Unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its consequences -- Causes which mitigate the tyranny of the majority in the United States -- Principal causes which tend to maintain the democratic republic in the United States -- The present and probable future condition of the three races which inhabit the territory of the United States. |
Series Title: | Conservative leadership series, 10. |
Other Titles: | De la démocratie en Amérique. |
Responsibility: | by Alexis de Tocqueville ; translated with a preface and introductory notice by Henry Reeve ; edited by Bruce Frohnen. |
Abstract:
"The only contemporaneous translation of Toqueville's work into English... [Tocqueville's] two-volume work (published in 1835 and 1840) became the best description ever written of the fledgling republic's political culture and of democracy in general... The book is a renewed, eminently readable invitation to join a conversation already more than 165 years old but still vital to the right ordering and thus continuance of the American republic"--from jacket flaps.
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