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Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with ...
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville [a] (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), [7] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political philosopher, and historian.He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States is a nonfiction book by Erwin Chemerinsky, published by Liveright/Norton. It contains criticism of the Constitution of the United States .
Too many Americans are skeptical about and alienated from our democracy, and they are willing to entertain some pretty extreme authoritarian “reforms” as an outlet for that skepticism.
In Volume II, Book 4, Chapter 6 of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville writes the following about soft despotism: . Thus, After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community.
Live Free or Die discuses the nature of American freedom, democracy, individualism, and how they reflect to politics of the country and the world. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] References
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Wolf, published by Chelsea Green Publishing of White River Junction, Vermont. Wolf argues that events of the early 2000s paralleled steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century's worst dictatorships and called Americans to take action to ...
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction is a 2004 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show that parodies and satirizes American politics and worldview. [1] It has won several awards, and generated some controversy.