Tocqueville on Democracy
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The American Revolution Was Not Just a Constitution, but a Social Revolution Too
The American constitution was not really a democratic constitution, though it was the kind of constitution on which democratic ideas could be built. But America was not just its constitution, and the American revolution did not just produce a constitutional revolution too. And American society was much more democratic than its constitution. Many people who observed America thought that the real experiment in democracy was not just in its politics, but in its way of life.
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