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De La Démocratie en Amérique is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are.
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• Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147)
• Democracy in America, Part I. by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Manuscripts of Tocqueville
• Democracy in America

This was also the element they thought the United States did best: 86 percent said the United States fully or mostly meets that standard. That assessment stands in sharp contrast to Mr. The United States is doing less well on the second- and third-most essential elements of a democracy, according to the respondents: equal political and legal rights and equal voting rights. About one-third said the country did not meet or only partly met these standards.

Two red flags — principles that were deemed important to democracy, but in which the United States is underperforming — have arisen during the Trump administration. They are that government officials do not use public office for private gains, they said, and that elections are free from foreign influence. About half of respondents expressed skepticism that Congress and the Constitution were able to effectively limit executive power. The areas in which American democracy is failing — according to more than 80 percent of respondents — concerned civil behavior.

The experts said that these were not essential to democracy, but that they were beneficial. The flag present, and old soldiers. Real emotion.

After travelling to Michigan, Wisconsin, Quebec, and back to Boston, the two young men went south. Tocqueville jokily called the South le Midi. It was an arduous journey, because the winter of was unprecedentedly harsh, and the Ohio River froze over. Eventually, they reached Memphis, where the initial impression was bathetic. The agent stopped and arranged onward passage with a steamboat captain. In this great throng no sobs or cries were heard; they were silent. Their misfortunes were long-standing, and they felt them to be irremediable.

All of the Indians were already in the vessel that was going to carry them, but the dogs still remained on the bank. When the creatures understood at last that they were going to be left behind forever, they burst all together into a terrible howl, and plunging into the icy Mississippi, they swam after their masters. They thus made a wound in humanity less large, but infinitely difficult to heal.

Repeatedly, he returns to three religious concerns: he earnestly believed that American democracy was providential; he thought that there was an intimate connection between social equality and Christian equality since Christ had proclaimed the good news for all, irrespective of color and creed, and insisted that the last shall be first ; and he lamented that, in France, religion was not on the side of equality but on the side of order and hierarchy.

Religion is thus vitally beneficial, but not only because it equalizes. God guarantees the authority of morals goodness comes from God , and, more generally, religion leads democratic man away from the narcissism and materialism endemic to non-aristocratic societies. Yet how does one continue to renew religious belief in an age of radical doubt? In a pungent sentence, he avers that, if a democratic people had to choose between metempsychosis and materialism, he would rather have citizens believe that their souls will be reborn in the bodies of pigs than that they themselves are just matter.

This is a more conservative Tocqueville than we are used to; it is the fearful aristocrat, and conventional Catholic moralist, who doubted that democracy could occur in India, for instance, because it had not been blessed by the liberal sweetness of Christianity, and who stoutly defended the French conquest of Algeria. In the end, his reviewer and correspondent John Stuart Mill, a good deal less hospitable to Christianity than Tocqueville was, emerges as the more thoroughgoing liberal.

Into this mad portmanteau is stuffed Olivier de Clarel de Barfleur de Garmont, a French aristocrat born in , modelled on Tocqueville.

The Manuscripts of Tocqueville

He discovers some dusty little parcels in an obscure nook of the house. They are sheets of newspaper wrapped around dead pigeons.

They found them guilty and then they wrung their necks. Like Tocqueville, Olivier has Royalist parents, and is appointed a magistrate at Versailles, alongside his Beaumont—named Blacqueville—who will accompany him on the eccentric voyage to America. Parrot, an English engraver.

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He is intelligent but uneducated, canny, bawdy, proud. It is an irksome task.

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