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Democracy in America

"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
Print Book, English, ©2002
Regnery ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, Washington, DC, Lanham, MD, ©2002
xliii, 703 pages ; 24 cm.
9780895261601, 089526160X
52253767
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
Originally published: London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889