Origin Of The Anglo-Americans Part I Chapter Summary Utility of knowing the origin of nations in order to understand their social condition and their laws – America the only country in which the starting-point of a great people has been clearly observable – In what respects all who emigrated to British America were similar –…
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Democracy in America I: Chapter I
Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, one inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded – Difference in the appearance of…
Democracy in America I: Introduction
Introductory Chapter By Alexis de Tocqueville Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to…
Democracy in America, I: Special Introduction by John Ingalls
Special Introduction By Hon. John J. Ingalls Nearly two-thirds of a century has elapsed since the appearance of “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de Tocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection for philosophy and political economy, and at twenty-two was…
Democracy in America I: Special Introduction by John Morgan
Special Introduction By Hon. John T. Morgan In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the…