Democracy In America {Abridged}

The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago. This edition, meticulously edited by the distinguished de Tocqueville scholar J. P. Mayer, is widely recognized as the preeminent translation.

Introduction

xi

Map

xxxii

VOLUME ONE

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE TWELTH EDITION

3

(172)

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION

7

(6)

Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and Importance of this Origin in Relation to their Future Condition

13

(9)

Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans

22

(8)

The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People of America

30

(4)

Necessity of Examining the Condition of the States Before that of the Union at Large

34

(9)

Judicial Power in the United States, and its Influence on Political Society

43

(4)

Political Jurisdiction in the United States

47

(4)

The Federal Constitution

51

(23)

How it Can be Strictly Said that the People Govern in the United States

74

(1)

Parties in the United States

75

(3)

Liberty of the Press in the United States

78

(4)

Government of the Democracy in America

82

(9)

What are the Real Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government

91

(7)

Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States, and its Consequences

98

(9)

Causes which Mitigate the Tyranny of the Majority in the United States

107

(6)

Principal Causes which Tend to Maintain the Democratic Republic of the United States

113

(19)

The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States

132

(43)

VOLUME TWO

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND PART

175

(196)

FIRST BOOK Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect in the United States

Philosophical Method of the Americans

179

(3)

How Religion in the United States Avails itself of Democratic Tendencies

182

(2)

The Progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States

184

(2)

How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man

186

(2)

The Example of the Americans does not Prove that a Democratic People can Have no Aptitude and no Taste for Science, Literature, or Art

188

(6)

Some Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Times

194

(7)

SECOND BOOK Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans

Why Democratic Nations Show a more Ardent and Enduring Love of Equality than of Liberty

201

(4)

Of Individualism in Democratic Countries

205

(3)

Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic Revolution than at Other Periods

208

(2)

That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism by Free Institutions

210

(5)

Of the Use which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life

215

(5)

Of the Relations between Public Associations and the Newspapers

220

(4)

Relation of Civil to Political Associations

224

(5)

How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood

229

(2)

That the Americans Apply the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood to Religious Matters

231

(3)

Of the Taste for Physical Well-Being in America

234

(3)

Peculiar Effects of the Love of Physical Gratifications in Democratic Times

237

(3)

Why some Americans Manifest a Sort of Fanatical Spiritualism

240

(2)

How Religious Belief Sometimes Turns the Thoughts of Americans to Immaterial Pleasures

242

(5)

Why Among the Americans All Honest Callings are Considered Honourable

247

(2)

What Causes Almost All Americans to Follow Industrial Callings

249

(4)

How an Aristocracy may be Created by Manufactures

253

(6)

THIRD BOOK Influence of Democracy on Manners Properly so Called

How Democracy Renders the Habitual Intercourse of the Americans Simple and Easy

259

(3)

Why the Americans Show so Little Sensitiveness in their own Country and are so Sensitive in Europe

262

(4)

How Democracy Affects the Relations of Masters and Servants

266

(7)

Influence of Democracy on Wages

273

(3)

Influence of Democracy on the Family

276

(7)

Education of Young Women in the United States

283

(3)

The Young Woman in the Character of a Wife

286

(3)

How Equality of Condition Contributes to Maintain Good Morals in America

289

(7)

How the Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes

296

(4)

How the Principle of Equality Naturally Divides the Americans into a Multitude of Small Private Circles

300

(2)

Some Reflections on American Manners

302

(4)

Why the National Vanity of the Americans is more Restless and Captious than that of the English

306

(3)

How the Aspect of Society in the United States is at once Excited and Monotonous

309

(3)

Why so Many Ambitious Men and so Little Lofty Ambition are to be Found in the United States

312

(6)

The Trade of Place-Hunting in Certain Democratic Countries

318

(2)

Why Great Revolutions will Become more Rare

320

(13)

Some Considerations on War in Democratic Communiteis

333

(8)

FOURTH BOOK Influence of Democratic Ideas and Feelings on Political Society

Equality Naturally Gives Men a Taste for Free Institutions

341

(2)

That the Opinions of Democratic Nations about Government are Naturally Favourable to the Concentration of Power

343

(4)

That the Sentiments of Democratic Nations Accord with their Opinions in Leading them to Concentrate Political Power

347

(3)

Of Certain Peculiar and Accidental Causes which either Lead a People to Complete the Centralisation of Government or Divert them from it

350

(6)

What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear

356

(6)

Continuation of the Preceding Chapters

362

(9)

General Survey of the Subject

371

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