Democracy in AmericaAbridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women. |
Contents
AUTHORS PREFACE TO THE TWELTH EDITION | 7 |
Origin of the AngloAmericans and Importance | 13 |
Social Condition of the AngloAmericans | 22 |
The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People of America | 30 |
Judicial Power in the United States and its Influence | 43 |
The Federal Constitution | 51 |
How it Can be Strictly Said that the People Govern | 74 |
Government of the Democracy in America | 82 |
Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic | 208 |
Of the Use which the Americans Make | 215 |
Relation of Civil to Political Associations | 224 |
That the Americans Apply the Principle of SelfInterest | 231 |
Peculiar Effects of the Love of Physical Gratifications | 237 |
Why Among the Americans All Honest | 247 |
How an Aristocracy may be Created by Manufactures | 253 |
How Democracy Renders the Habitual | 259 |
What are the Real Advantages which American | 91 |
Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States | 98 |
Causes which Mitigate the Tyranny of the Majority | 107 |
Principal Causes which Tend to Maintain the Democratic | 113 |
The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three | 132 |
AUTHORS PREFACE TO THE SECOND PART | 175 |
How Religion in the United States Avails | 182 |
The Example of the Americans does not Prove | 188 |
Some Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Times | 194 |
Why Democratic Nations Show a more Ardent | 201 |
Why the Americans Show so Little Sensitiveness | 264 |
Influence of Democracy on Wages | 273 |
Education of Young Women in the United States | 283 |
How Equality of Condition Contributes to Maintain | 289 |
How the Americans Understand the Equality | 296 |
Some Reflections on American Manners | 302 |
How the Aspect of Society in the United States | 309 |
The Trade of PlaceHunting in Certain Democratic | 318 |
Some Considerations on War in Democratic | 333 |