Lessons from Tocqueville in America
Live at the National Constitution Center
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What I Learned From Tocqueville's Seminar
Jeffrey Toobin: Tocqueville knew absolutely pretty much close to zero about this country before he came. He learned English during the sea voyage and had very little understanding of it, but he had this intuition that if he was going to live in the democracy, he got to see one. "He spent several weeks here even before thinking about the constitution," Toobin says. And yes, as you pointed out, Jeff, he was extremely impressed with the notion of bicameralism"
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