Lessons from Tocqueville in America
Live at the National Constitution Center
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Tocqueville's Answer Is a Sort of Social Capital Type Response
Tocqueville asked questions and the remarkable thing, I mean, this man was ill for a lot of the funny years of his life. He did this, my keeps on asking questions. That is part of his answer to this issue because the answer to that question is that French over a period of time simply destroyed the middle. They left themselves with the state and with these relatively weak individuals and so on. Tockfield's answer is that sort of social capital argument. How do you get that? That is just about the most difficult question you can ask. It cannot just be government. That won't do. As we've got discussions about religion and so on, those sort
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