Democracy on Democracy
“Elected magistrates do not make American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2, p. 105.
Source: Democracy in America (vol 2)
Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French diplomat, historian, and scientist. In the 1830s he came to America to examine our prison system but traveled extensively to study America as a whole. His conclusions were printed in 1835 in two volumes called Dem …
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