| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 323 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
American political, economic, and security issues
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American political, economic, and security issues series.
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| Summary |
American Institutions by Alexis De Tocqueville has attracted great attention throughout Europe, where it is universally regarded as a sound, philosophical, impartial, and remarkably clear and distinct view of our political institutions, and of our manners, opinions, and habits, as influencing or influenced by those institutions. Writers, reviewers, and statesmen of all parties, have united in the highest commendations of its ability and integrity. The people, described by a work of such a character, should not be the only one in Christendom unacquainted with its contents. At least, so thought many of our most distinguished men, who have urged the publishers of this edition to reprint the work, and present it to the American public. They have done so in the hope of promoting among their countrymen a more thorough knowledge of their frames of government, and a more just appreciation of the great principles on which they are founded |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Exterior form of North America -- Origin of the Anglo-Americans and its importance, in relation to their future condition -- Social condition of the Anglo-Americans -- The principle of the sovereignty of the people in America -- Necessity of examining the condition of the states before that of the union at large -- Judicial power in the United States, and its influence on political society -- Political jurisdiction in the United States -- The Federal Constitution -- Why the people may strictly be said to govern in the United States -- Parties in the United States -- Liberty of the press in the United States -- Political associations in the United States -- Government of the democracy in America -- What the real advantages are which American society derives from the government of the democracy -- Unlimited power of the majority in the United States and its consequences -- Causes which mitigate the tyranny of the majority in the United States -- Principal causes which tend to maintain the democratic republic in the United States -- The present and probable future condition of the three races which inhabit the territory of the United States |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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Democracy.
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Democracy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. [S.l.] : NOVA SCIENCE, 2019 1536155470 (OCoLC)1091298223 |
| ISBN |
9781536155525 (electronic book) |
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1536155527 (electronic book) |
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9781536155471 |
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1536155470 |
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