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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...he States of New England. It was generally allowed at that period that the territories of the New World belonged to that European nation which had bee... ...ng that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying within its boundaries, upon the plea that the Constitutio...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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