Democracy in AmericaHarper Collins, 2000 - 778 Seiten Tocqueville's monumental book is as relevant today as when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century, and it remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written -- whether by an American or, as in this case, a foreign visitor. This special edition contains the entire two volumes of Democracy in America, based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished Tocqueville scholar J.P. Mayer. |
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... result the democratic revolution has taken place in the body of society without those changes in laws , ideas , customs , and mores which were needed to make that revolution profitable . Hence we have our democracy without those ...
... result the democratic revolution has taken place in the body of society without those changes in laws , ideas , customs , and mores which were needed to make that revolution profitable . Hence we have our democracy without those ...
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... result , like old men's passions ending in impotence . Thus we have abandoned whatever good things the old order of society could provide but have not profited from what our present state can offer ; we have destroyed an aristocratic ...
... result , like old men's passions ending in impotence . Thus we have abandoned whatever good things the old order of society could provide but have not profited from what our present state can offer ; we have destroyed an aristocratic ...
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... result of political or religious quarrels great lords went to America . Laws were made there to establish the hierarchy of ranks , but it was soon seen that the soil of America absolutely rejected a territorial aristocracy . It was ...
... result of political or religious quarrels great lords went to America . Laws were made there to establish the hierarchy of ranks , but it was soon seen that the soil of America absolutely rejected a territorial aristocracy . It was ...
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... result the death penalty has never been more frequently prescribed by the laws or more seldom carried out . The framers of these penal codes were especially concerned with the maintenance of good behavior and sound mores in society , so ...
... result the death penalty has never been more frequently prescribed by the laws or more seldom carried out . The framers of these penal codes were especially concerned with the maintenance of good behavior and sound mores in society , so ...
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... result of circumstances , sometimes of laws , but most often of a combination of the two . But once it has come into ... Results of that change . Equal- ity carried to extreme limits in the new states of the West . Equality of mental ...
... result of circumstances , sometimes of laws , but most often of a combination of the two . But once it has come into ... Results of that change . Equal- ity carried to extreme limits in the new states of the West . Equality of mental ...
Inhalt
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JUDICIAL POWER IN THE UNITED STATES AND | 99 |
POLITICAL JURISDICTION IN THE UNITED STATES | 106 |
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION | 112 |
CONCLUSION | 408 |
Authors Preface to Volume Two | 417 |
CONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH | 429 |
WHY THE AMERICANS SHOW MORE APTITUDE | 437 |
CONCERNING THE PROGRESS OF ROMAN CATHOLI | 450 |
WHY DEMOCRATIC NATIONS SHOW A MORE ARDENT | 503 |
HOW THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS | 509 |
ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ASSOCIATIONS | 517 |
Why the President of the United States Has No Need in Order | 126 |
Crisis of the Election | 134 |
The Federal Courts | 141 |
Procedure of the Federal Courts | 147 |
PART II | 171 |
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN THE UNITED STATES | 180 |
POLITICAL ASSOCIATION IN THE UNITED STATES | 189 |
GOVERNMENT BY DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA | 196 |
THE REAL ADVANTAGES DERIVED BY AMERICAN | 231 |
THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE MAJORITY IN | 246 |
WHAT TEMPERS THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY | 262 |
THE MAIN CAUSES TENDING TO MAINTAIN A DEM | 277 |
SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PRES | 316 |
HOW THE AMERICANS COMBAT INDIVIDUALISM | 525 |
PARTICULAR EFFECTS OF THE LOVE OF PHYSICAL | 532 |
INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON WAGES | 582 |
HOW THE AMERICAN VIEWS THE EQUALITY OF | 600 |
HOW THE ASPECT OF SOCIETY IN THE UNITED | 614 |
WHY THERE ARE SO MANY MEN OF AMBITION | 627 |
CONTINUATION OF THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS | 695 |
GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SUBJECT | 702 |
Tocquevilles Notes to Volumes One and Two | 709 |
Report on Cherbuliez Book On Democracy | 736 |
Index | 759 |
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Seite 227 - ... neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation?
Seite 115 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite.
Seite 45 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Seite 356 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Seite 505 - Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types — religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute.
Seite 227 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite 260 - It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Seite 115 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Seite 39 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 717 - Henry VIII. and his three children. It can change and create afresh even the Constitution of the Kingdom, and of Parliaments themselves, as was done by the Act of Union and the several statutes for Triennial and Septennial Elections. It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible, and, therefore, some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the Omnipotence of Parliament.