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Democracy in America, Volume 1 at Project Gutenberg; Democracy in America, Volume 2 at Project Gutenberg; Democracy in America public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Booknotes, February 26, 1995 – Interview with Alan Ryan on the writing of the introduction to the 1994 edition of Democracy in America. (Page includes transcript)
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.
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).
This idea has been discussed by various thinkers, including John Stuart Mill in On Liberty [2] and Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A tyranny of the majority can ensue when democracy is distorted either by an excess of centralization [ 5 ] or when the people abandon a wider perspective to "rule upon numbers, not upon ...
Booknotes interview with Alan Ryan on the Introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, February 26, 1995. Booknotes interview with Harvey Mansfield on the University of Chicago Press edition of Democracy in America, December 17, 2000; Phone interviews with winners of C-SPAN's Tocqueville contest, February 6, 1998
Luttig’s written statement to the committee cast the situation in unflinching terms. “A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is ...