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November 4th 2008

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. II (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1950), pp. 319.

  • they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians, Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons, but the people at large who hold the end of his chain. By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again."

  • "Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite:

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