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050 00 $aJK 216$bT713 2000b
100 1 $aTocqueville, Alexis de,$d1805-1859.
240 10 $aDe la democratie en Amerique.$lEnglish
245 10 $aDemocracy in America /$btranslated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2000.
300 $axciii, 722 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aExternal Configuration of North America -- On the Point of Departure and Its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans -- Reasons for Some Singularities That the Laws and Customs of the Anglo-Americans Present -- Social State of the Anglo-Americans -- That the Salient Point of the Social State of the Anglo-Americans Is Its Being Essentially Democratic -- Political Consequences of the Social State of the Anglo-Americans -- On the Principle of the Sovereignty of the People in America -- Necessity of Studying What Takes Place in the Particular States before Speaking of the Government of the Union -- On the Township System in America -- Size of the Township -- Powers of the Township in New England -- On Township Existence -- On the Spirit of the Township in New England -- On the County in New England -- On Administration in New England -- General Ideas about Administration in the United States -- On the State -- Legislative Power of the State -- On the Executive Power of the State -- On the Political Effects of Administrative Decentralization in the United States -- On Judicial Power in the United States and Its Action on Political Society -- Other Powers Granted to American Judges -- On Political Judgment in the United States -- On the Federal Constitution -- History of the Federal Constitution -- Summary Picture of the Federal Constitution -- Prerogatives of the Federal Government -- Federal Powers -- Legislative Powers -- Another Difference between the Senate and the House of Representatives -- On the Executive Power -- How the Position of the President of the United States Differs from That of a Constitutional King in France -- Accidental Causes That Can Increase the Influence of the Executive Power -- Why the President of the United States Does Not Need to Have a Majority in the Houses in Order to Direct Affairs -- On the Election of the President -- Mode of Election -- Crisis of the Election -- On the Reelection of the President -- On the Federal Courts -- Manner of Settling the Competence of the Federal Courts -- Different Cases of Jurisdiction -- Manner of Proceeding of Federal Courts -- Elevated Rank Held by the Supreme Court among the Great Powers of the State -- How the Federal Constitution Is Superior to the Constitutions of the States -- What Distinguishes the Federal Constitution of the United States of America from All Other Federal Constitutions -- On the Advantages of the Federal System Generally, and Its Special Utility for America -- What Keeps the Federal System from Being within Reach of All Peoples, and What Has Permitted the Anglo-Americans to Adopt It -- How One Can Say Strictly That in the United States the People Govern -- On Parties in the United States -- On the Remains of the Aristocratic Party in the United States -- On Freedom of the Press in the United States -- On Political Association in the United States -- On the Government of Democracy in America -- On Universal Suffrage -- On the Choices of the People and the Instincts of American Democracy in Its Choices -- On the Causes That Can in Part Correct These Instincts of Democracy -- Influence That American Democracy Exerts on Electoral Laws -- On Public Officials under the Empire of American Democracy -- On the Arbitrariness of Magistrates under the Empire of American Democracy -- Administrative Instability in the United States -- On Public Costs under the Empire of American Democracy -- On the Instincts of American Democracy in Fixing the Salaries of Officials -- Difficulty of Discerning the Causes That Incline the American Government to Economy -- Can the Public Expenditures of the United States Be Compared to Those of France? -- On the Corruption and Vices of Those Who Govern in Democracy; On the Effects on Public Morality That Result -- Of What Efforts Democracy Is Capable -- On the Power That American Democracy Generally Exercises over Itself -- The Manner in Which American Democracy Conducts External Affairs of State -- What Are the Real Advantages That American Society Derives from the Government of Democracy -- On the General Tendency of the Laws under the Empire of American Democracy, and on the Instinct of Those Who Apply Them -- On Public Spirit in the United States -- On the Idea of Rights in the United States -- On Respect for the Law in the United States -- Activity Reigning in All Parts of the Body Politic of the United States; Influence That It Exerts on Society -- On the Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its E ects -- How the Omnipotence of the Majority in America Increases the Legislative and Administrative Instability That Is Natural to Democracies -- Tyranny of the Majority -- Effects of the Omnipotence of the Majority on the Arbitrariness of American Officials -- On the Power That the Majority in America Exercises over Thought -- Effects of the Tyranny of the Majority on the National Character of the Americans; On the Spirit of a Court in the United States -- That the Greatest Danger of the American Republics Comes from the Omnipotence of the Majority -- On What Tempers the Tyranny of the Majority in the United States -- Absence of Administrative Centralization -- On the Spirit of the Lawyer in the United States and How It Serves as a Counterweight to Democracy -- On the Jury in the United States Considered as a Political Institution -- On the Principal Causes Tending to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States -- On the Accidental or Providential Causes Contributing to the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic in the United States -- On the Influence of the Laws on the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic in the United States -- On the Influence of Mores on the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic in the United States -- On Religion Considered as a Political Institution; How It Serves Powerfully the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic among the Americans -- Indirect Influence That Religious Beliefs Exert on Political Society in the United States -- On the Principal Causes That Make Religion Powerful in America -- How the Enlightenment, the Habits, and the Practical Experience of the Americans Contribute to the Success of Democratic Institutions -- That the Laws Serve to Maintain a Democratic Republic in the United States More than Physical Causes, and Mores More than Laws -- Would Laws and Mores Suffice to Maintain Democratic Institutions Elsewhere than in America? -- Importance of What Precedes in Relation to Europe -- Some Considerations on the Present State and the Probable Future of the Three Races That Inhabit the Territory of the United States -- Present State and Probable Future of the Indian Tribes That Inhabit the Territory Possessed by the Union -- Position That the Black Race Occupies in the United States; Dangers Incurred by Whites from Its Presence -- What Are the Chances That the American Union Will Last? What Dangers Threaten It? -- On Republican Institutions in the United States; What Are Their Chances of Longevity? -- Some Considerations on the Causes of the Commercial Greatness of the United States -- Notice -- Influence of Democracy on Intellectual Movement in the United States -- On the Philosophic Method of the Americans -- On the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoples -- Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas than Their English Fathers -- Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French for General Ideas in Political Matters -- How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts -- On the Progress of Catholicism in the United States -- What Makes the Mind of Democratic Peoples Lean toward Pantheism -- How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man -- How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Arts -- Why the Americans Apply Themselves to the Practice of the Sciences Rather than to the Theory -- In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts -- Why the Americans at the Same Time Raise Such Little and Such Great Monuments -- The Literary Face of Democratic Centuries -- On the Literary Industry -- Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies -- How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language -- On Some Sources of Poetry in Democratic Nations -- Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombastic -- Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples -- On Some Tendencies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuries -- On Parliamentary Eloquence in the United States -- Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americans -- Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Lasting Love for Equality than for Freedom -- On Individualism in Democratic Countries -- How Individualism Is Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than in Any Other Period -- How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutions -- On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life -- On the Relation between Associations and Newspapers -- Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associations -- How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood -- How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion -- On the Taste for Material Well-Being in America -- On the Particular E ects That the Love of Material Enjoyments Produces in Democratic Centuries -- Why Certain Americans Display Such an Exalted Spiritualism -- Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-Being -- How the Taste for Material Enjoyments among Americans Is United with Love of Freedom and with Care for Public A airs -- How Religious Beliefs at Times Turn the Souls of the Americans toward Immaterial Enjoyments -- How the Excessive Love of Well-Being Can Be Harmful to Well-Being.
505 8 $aHow in Times of Equality and Doubt It Is Important to Move Back the Object of Human Actions -- Why among the Americans All Honest Professions Are Reputed Honorable -- What Makes Almost All Americans Incline toward Industrial Professions -- How Aristocracy Could Issue from Industry -- Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So-Called -- How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Are Equalized -- How Democracy Renders the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easier -- Why the Americans Have So Little Oversensitivity in Their Country and Show Themselves to Be So Oversensitive in Ours -- Consequences of the Preceding Three Chapters -- How Democracy Modifies the Relations of Servant and Master -- How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Price and Shorten the Duration of Leases -- Influence of Democracy on Wages -- Influence of Democracy on the Family -- Education of Girls in the United States -- How the Girl Is Found beneath the Features of the Wife -- How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Mores in America -- How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and Woman -- How Equality Naturally Divides the Americans into a Multitude of Particular Little Societies -- Some Reflections on American Manners -- On the Gravity of the Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Their Often Doing Ill-Considered Things -- Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Restive and More Quarrelsome than That of the English -- How the Aspect of Society in the United States Is at Once Agitated and Monotonous -- On Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies -- Why One Finds So Many Ambitious Men in the United States and So Few Great Ambitions -- On the Industry in Place-Hunting in Certain Democratic Nations -- Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare -- Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally [Desire] War -- Which Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary Class in Democratic Armies -- What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker than Other Armies When Entering into a Campaign and More Formidable When War Is Prolonged -- On Discipline in Democratic Armies -- Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies -- On the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exert on Political Society -- Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions -- That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in the Matter of Government Are Naturally Favorable to the Concentration of Powers -- That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Accord with Their Ideas to Bring Them to Concentrate Power -- On Some Particular and Accidental Causes That Serve to Bring a Democratic People to Centralize Power or Turn It Away from That -- That among European Nations of Our Day Sovereign Power Increases Although Sovereigns Are Less Stable -- What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
700 1 $aMansfield, Harvey Claflin,$d1932-
700 1 $aWinthrop, Delba.
948 $a02/02/2001$b03/21/2001
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