Democracy in America

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Harper 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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AUTHORS INTRODUCTION
9
PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION OF NORTH AMERICA
23
CONCERNING THEIR POINT OF DEPARTURE
31
SOCIAL STATE OF THE ANGLOAMERICANS
50
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEO
58
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.

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French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil to an aristocratic Norman family. He entered the bar in 1825 and became an assistant magistrate at Versailles. In 1831, he was sent to the United States to report on the prison system. This journey produced a book called On the Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), as well as a much more significant work called Democracy in America (1835--40), a treatise on American society and its political system. Active in French politics, Tocqueville also wrote Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), in which he argued that the Revolution of 1848 did not constitute a break with the past but merely accelerated a trend toward greater centralization of government. Tocqueville was an observant Catholic, and this has been cited as a reason why many of his insights, rather than being confined to a particular time and place, reach beyond to see a universality in all people everywhere.

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