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 Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
In democracies, where the government picks out every individual singly from the mass, to make him subservient to the general laws of the community, no such intermediate person is required: a father is there, in the eye of the law, only a member of the community, older and richer than his sons.
An American is forever talking of the admirable equality which prevails in the United States; aloud he makes it the boast of his country, but in secret he deplores it for himself; and he aspires to show that, for his part, he is an exception to the general state of things which he vaunts.
Thus the parent has not only a natural right, but he acquires a political right, to command them: he is the author and the support of his family; but he is also its constituted ruler.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/DemocracyinAmericaVol2B.html   (19641 words)

  
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In America, on the other hand, it may be said that the township was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union.
17.] [Footnote b: In 1641 the General Assembly of Rhode Island unanimously declared that the government of the State was a democracy, and that the power was vested in the body of free citizens, who alone had the right to make the laws and to watch their execution.
Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial aristocracy.
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/literature/alexis.de.tocqueville/1dina10.txt   (17518 words)

  
 Democracy in America
Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta.
The Constitution of the United States of America
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - on the threat to democracy by corporate power
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/Democracy_America.html   (1674 words)

  
 portland imc - 2005.01.31 - Democracy in America: Tocqueville
The observer from France who sought models for renewing democracy after the July revolution of 1830 in the commission of the "citizen king" Louis-Philippe did not lose himself in eulogies.
A few years before Tocqueville's visit, Central- and South America were declared the "backyards" of the United States.
Expert Opinions on the World Assembly to Renew Democracy
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/309644.shtml   (2155 words)

  
 Democracy Now! Imperial America: Gore Vidal Reflects on the United States of Amnesia
This one, "Imperial America — Reflections On The United States Of Amnesia." That's the second part, amnesia.
This is probably my first encounter in the United States with democracy.
Following the publication of the first two of his latest trilogy of books examining the American empire, Vidal was described as the last "noble defender" of the American republic, America's last "small-r" republican.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/04/1353259   (3730 words)

  
 CNN -- Democracy in America
Most private schools in America have a religious affiliation.
We can pass voucher schemes that violate our constitutional principles, that would make a mockery of every American's right to support only the religious groups of her choosing and that would threaten the existence of public schools.
But my bedrock reason for opposing them is constitutional: These plans violate the separation of church and state.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/privateschools.publicmoney/views   (1897 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America): Books: Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America) by Alexander Hamilton
American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Levy
Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Jefferson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931082545?v=glance   (1931 words)

  
 Resource: Democracy in America
It shows the increased power of the Supreme Court through its use of judicial review and the difficulty of creating a judiciary that is independent of politics.
This program explores the crucial role of strategy in the two-stage electoral campaign system; the opportunities for citizens to choose, organize, and elect candidates who will pursue policies they favor; and the need for campaigns to increase voter turnout by educating citizens about the importance and influence of their vote.
This program shows that the American Presidency has been transformed since the 1930s.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series173.html   (729 words)

  
 Democracy in America-Not
When voters are deciding how they wish to use their vote, they should ask themselves how best to send a clear message.
This being an election year, wonderful people, fine tax payers...God Bless America."
Conference on Media Reform, St. Louis, Missouri, May 15, 2005
http://earthrenewal.org/democrac.htm   (2894 words)

  
 The Montgomery County Democracy for America Meetup Group - Meetup.com
Democracy for Montgomery County welcomes US Senate candidate Kweisi Mfume.
"Democracy for Montgomery County and Democracy for Maryland will be rallying for the Fair Share Healthcare Veto Override in Annapolis on Wednesday, January 11th.
Poll created on Sat Apr 16 09:02:59 EDT 2005
http://dfa.meetup.com/12   (853 words)

  
 Why Democracy Failed in America
In contemporary America, politicians debate issues that are essentially meaningless, eschewing dialog about the issues the concern the voters; and we let them get away with it.
After "Honest Abe" threw out the constitution, Bill Clinton was inevitable.
So the failure of democracy in the United States was a foregone conclusion, from that time on.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peirce/peirce12.html   (1667 words)

  
 Virginia Politicians and Highway Pork by Jacob G. Hornberger
Everyone in Washington knows that there is no better way for a member of the U.S. House or Senate to ingratiate himself with voters than by announcing, “Free federal pork for your community.
Unfortunately, this is how democracy works in America today, compliments of the U.S. Congress.
This is what democracy in America is now all about.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger53.html   (611 words)

  
 Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish, it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.
Finally, how applicable are Tocqueville's criticisms to present-day America?
   Thus, not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/NATION/TOCQ.HTM   (3017 words)

  
 :: San Francisco for Democracy ::
Born in Monterey, California, raised in a Republican family in Houston, and now residing in weird and progressive Austin, Molly Ivins writes columns and books that warm many a progressive heart.
The success of the get-out-the-vote efforts here in San Francisco also made a big difference to the election's outcome.
This year, California is the key state in the fight for Clean Money/Public Campaign financing.
http://www.sf4democracy.com/main   (2854 words)

  
 Democracy in America
In Volume I, Tocqueville almost seems to marvel at American democracy, writing at length about freedom of the press, the federal system, the concepts of personal rights and liberties in the United States, and decentralization of power through state and local governments.
Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 in Paris.
At the age of twenty-five, he visited the United States, and his experiences there would later become the basis for his classic study Democracy in America.
http://www.liberty-tree.org/ltn/democracy.html   (402 words)

  
 Salisbury Democracy for America
Democracy for America - Salisbury is established for the purpose of advancing democratic values, peace, justice, integrity, and truth in government.
We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit, organization of concerned individuals determined to speak out against those who work for Corporate over individual rights, an aggressive and militaristic foreign policy, and an entrenched military-industrial complex.
Join us by clicking here to go to the DFA Salisbury site, where you can join the organization, meet the other members, read our message board, link to other meet-up groups, and sign up for coming events.
http://dfasalisbury.home.comcast.net   (572 words)

  
 Dallas Democracy For America
Dallas Democracy for America (DFA) is a group of citizen-activists dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government - from school board and city council to the presidency.
Dallas Democracy for America is sponsoring a non-partisan city council candidates forum for Garland and Dallas on Saturday, March 26th at Lakehill Preparatory School in Dallas.
The forum is the most comprehensive of its kind yet scheduled, with candidates from three Garland districts attending, as well as multiple candidates from eleven Dallas districts.
http://www.democracyfortexas.org/ddfa.htm   (387 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Democracy in America by Larry Elder - Dec 28, 2001
There is a meaning of the 'democracy' that has referred to that party, just as the word 'Republicanism' has referred to the Republican party.
People often try to draw political inferences from our definitions, as if, say, in this case, we were saying that democracy, in its customary sense, is the exclusive province of the Democratic party, but that is absurd.
Nothing about "the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S." For its part, Merriam-Webster seemed almost defensive about their definition of democracy.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20011228.shtml   (891 words)

  
 The Crisis of Democracy in America
It is not necessary to believe that the election of 2000, or even of 2004, was stolen (despite the persistence of rules and practices which disadvantage low-income and minority voters), in order to take the view that democracy itself has been tampered with in order to consolidate power.
Suppose We Had a Real Democracy in the United States?
In the mid-1990s, when Soros turned his attention to his adopted country, the United States, he contrasted the open society challenges here with those faced in the rest of his network.
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/crisis_20050701   (4848 words)

  
 Trust: Representative Democracy in America
This project is funded by The U.S. Department of Education by act of Congress.
Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People is a national project designed to reinvigorate and educate Americans on the critical relationship between government and the people it serves.
Appreciating Democracy A Lesson Plan for High School Teachers of Civics, Government, and U.S. History designed to teach students to appreciate the most basic practices of democracy in the United States.
http://www.representativedemocracy.org   (348 words)

  
 PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America"
Although Tocqueville generally came away with a positive opinion of Americans, he was critical of their leader.
This one he missed, and maybe the reason he missed it is that he couldn’t have predicted Abraham Lincoln would become President of the United States, that there would be such a statesman to bring the two, uh, two, um, parts of America a…a slave and free together or at least to begin that process.
The…the, um, the America of Tocqueville’s day, the federal government was considerably less powerful than it is today.
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript975.html   (2827 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Democracy in America
Why is it that the French apply the Cartesian method more strictly than the Americans although the Americans have more liberty?
Part I: Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movements in the United States
As a result, religion is very strong in America both from its own power and from the support of public opinion.
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/inamerica/section6.html   (2009 words)

  
 Blog for America
It is time for our Illinois legislature to become as concerned with creating active, responsible citizens as it is with creating successful test-takers.
US Attorney Steven Biskupic in Miwaukee, WI said that his office is looking into possible federal charges in the case, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that the Justice Department's civil rights division and Buskupic's office will jointly decide whether or not to file charges.
Nancy Tobi is Vice Chair of Democracy for New Hampshire (DFNH) and Chair of the DFNH Fair Elections Committee.
http://www.blogforamerica.com   (3301 words)

  
 Muslimedia.com
  Every four years the US presidential elections are hailed as proving the strength, vibrancy and success of democracy in America, although the image was somewhat tarnished by the fiasco of the elections in 2000, won by Al Gore but hijacked by George W. Bush with the help of the Supreme Court.
Al-democratiyya al-shakliyya — usually translated as ‘facade democracy’ — has long been a recognised phenomenon in the Arab world, and the use of the term has been taken up by political scientists discussing Middle Eastern political structures and processes, and similar processes in other authoritarian countries.
  Democracy is seen as the key to reforming the Muslim world of its backward commitment to Islam and its stubborn refusal to accept the inescapable reality of benevolent American hegemony.
http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/editorial04/editor179b.htm   (956 words)

  
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On my arrival in the United States I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the citizens and so little among the heads of the government.
They admit that the people are unable to govern of themselves, but they aver that the people always wish the welfare of the state and instinctively designate those who are animated by the same good will and who are the most fit to wield the supreme authority.
I confess that the observations I made in America by no means coincide with these opinions.
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111toc.html   (5742 words)

  
 Northern Exposure: Democracy in America - TV.com
This episode was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama.
"America the Beautiful" by The American Boys Choir
Tell the world what you think of Democracy in America, write a review for this episode.
http://tv.com/.../democracy-in-america/episode/28741/summary.html   (166 words)

  
 Welcome to DFARochester.com
Reforming Albany: Democracy for New York State supports the Brennan Center Reforms for the NYS Legislature.
DFA Rochester is a participating organization in this coalition aiming to encourage Rep. Randy Kuhl (NY 29) to vote against privatization.
Click here to read more about the suggestions offered in the report.
http://www.dfarochester.com   (478 words)

  
 Democracy in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He also predicts the rise of the United States and Russia as superpowers.
The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States when it failed in so many other places.
He also observed that the strong role religion played in the United States was due to its separation from the government, a separation all parties found agreeable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America   (737 words)

  
 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)
Government of the Democracy in The United States.
Liberty of the Press in The United States.
The Study of Greek and Latin Literature is Peculiarly Useful in The United States.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/de-tocqueville/democracy-america   (926 words)

  
 America Coming Together - SourceWatch
America Coming Together (ACT) is one of five 527 committees engaged in supporting a Democratic candidate in U.S. presidential election, 2004.
[3] (http://reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=usFundsNewsandstoryID=3248397) The initial newstories indicated that the PAC would be named America Coming Together and would campaign in 17 key states.
Lobby your government for more effective antispam regulations.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=America_Coming_Together   (469 words)

  
 Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America
Advantages of Democracy in the United States (XIV)
Political Parties (IX, X) Liberty of the Press in the United States (XI)
Part Two: Book I - Influence of Democracy Upon the Action of Intellect in the United States
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14005.ctl   (666 words)

  
 The Populist Party - Democracy in America - Home
Populism, as espoused by the Populist Party, is a system of government where the final check and balance on the power of the federal authorities is directly in the hands of the people; with the Constitution and Bill of Rights serving as legal boundaries to protect the rights and liberties of all citizens.
The Populist Party of America is a political party that seeks solutions to our problems through the establishment of a Constitutional Democracy and strict adherence to the Bill of Rights.
Contrary to popular belief, this is the natural progression of society that Thomas Jefferson and many of our founding fathers felt was necessary to ensure America's lasting freedom.
http://www.populistamerica.com   (354 words)

  
 Democracy for America - dKosopedia
Formed as an outgrowth of Howard Dean's presidential campaign, Democracy For America has sought to mobilize the people who got involved in that campaign in further action, recruiting and assisting Democratic candidates from the Senate all the way down to county-level office.
The era when politicians equivocate about matters as fundamental as war and peace must end.
This page was last modified 23:36, 29 May 2004.
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Democracy_for_America   (166 words)

  
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 GBN: Democracy in America
Habitual inattention must be reckoned the great vice of the democratic spirit.
If ever freedom is lost in America, that will be due to the omnipotence of the majority driving the minorities to desperation and forcing them to appeal to physical force.
of America from his perspective of close familiarity with the successive failures of the French Ancien Regime and Revolution.
http://www.gbn.com/BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=68   (866 words)

  
 Democracy in America
This extraordinary book, written as a result of his visit, contains his comments and criticisms-many of which are still vital in today's world-and is a must-read for anyone interested in American politics.
And perhaps most importantly, the seriousness with which Americans took their rights - most notable among them, the right to vote and run for public office.
In the mid-1800s, a French political scientist named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to appraise the meaning and functioning of democracy.
http://www.iyares.com/amazon/details.aspx?id=0451528123   (964 words)

  
 Deliberative Democracy in America by Ethan J. Leib
I make my assumptions clear: where political autonomy is measured by the degree to which people can be said to be the authors of their own laws, deliberation by ordinary citizens helps the republican project of self-authorship.
Whether it is a proposal for proportional representation, cumulative voting, or the proliferation of parties, there is no dearth of suggestions that American democracy could be made stronger by revamping political life as we know it.
Obviously, a national constitutional amendment would probably be necessary for the version offered in the book to take effect.
http://www.psupress.org/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteLeib.html   (2551 words)

  
 Supporters of Democracy, Democracy for America Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area
This Meetup is officially brought to you by Democracy for America.
Evangeline Leash, The San Mateo County Democracy for America Meetup Group
Democracy for America Meetup - West Los Angeles
http://dfa.meetup.com   (157 words)

  
 Democracy in America
Today, America's prisons are full...and the president can make war on just about anyone he chooses.
And after the war, it was almost universally believed that the spread of democracy would prevent future wars.
Hardly a decade after the Armistice, people in Germany voted Hitler into office, while Italian voters gave Mussolini their highest post.
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Bonner/Articles/050902.html   (2660 words)

  
 Free book: Beyond Plutocracy - Direct Democracy for America, Home/Table of Contents
And it empowers them to elect to office representatives who truly represent them and who will create fair laws, rules, and practices within government and for our society.
Unlike the winner-take-all, majority-rule democracy of old in which the simple majority vote wins and all others lose, the consensus democracy described here and practiced by the electorate in the demos results in the consensus of the entire electorate, a moderate “golden mean” that avoids all extremes.
The two greatest enemies of freedom are those who insist “You must serve me!” (unopposed or insufficiently opposed plutocracy, so-called “representative” democracy) and those who insist “You must be like me!” (unopposed or insufficiently opposed direct democracy).
http://www.beyondplutocracy.com   (5396 words)

  
 Alexis de Tocqueville, Demcracy in America, Chapter 22
All the ambitious spirits of a democratic army are consequently ardently desirous of war, because war makes vacancies and warrants the violation of that law of seniority which is the sole privilege natural to democracy.
I am of the opinion that a restless and turbulent spirit is an evil inherent in the very constitution of democratic armies and beyond hope of cure.
Fortune, which has conferred so many peculiar benefits upon the inhabitants of the United States, has placed them in the midst of a wilderness, where they have, so to speak, no neighbors; a few thousand soldiers are sufficient for their wants.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/tocque49.htm   (2272 words)

  
 Democracy In America, Book I: Contents
Chapter V: Necessity Of Examining The Condition Of The States
Chapter XIII: Government Of The Democracy In America
Chapter IV: The Principle Of The Sovereignty Of The People In America
http://www.historycarper.com/resources/dia1/contents.htm   (124 words)

  
 Library of America: Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
After returning to France, Tocqueville read hundreds of books and documents while reflecting on what his trip had revealed about the "great democratic revolution" that was transforming the Western world.
As an independent, non-profit publisher, The Library of America encourages you to support your local, independent bookseller.
In Democracy in America he vividly describes the unprecedented "equality of conditions" found in the United States and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era.
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=202   (293 words)

  
 An alternative view to the mainstream media, Human rights; Social and economic justice; Foreign policy; Corporations; ...
on democracy, free speech, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace,
Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing.
Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com   (2618 words)

  
 Democracy in America
1830 based on travels to the US de Tocqueville writes his observations and conclusions about the state of democracy in America while trying to generalize what this means to the world in general.
He postulates equality to be the essential driver in any democratic system - equality leading to democracy and democracy favoring equality - and argues how the mechanisms and guiding principles at work affect all aspects of public and private life - how people think, feel, behave and act.
He argues that by observing the state of affairs in America, one can evaluate the merits of Democracy without the distortions brought about by violent revolutions and a host of old traditions as it it was the case in Europe.
http://homepage.mac.com/bsuter/iblog/C560560277/E356447943   (360 words)

  
 CNN -- Democracy in America
The CNN series Democracy in America, which aired during the 2000 election season, looked at some of these issues, as well as how the lives of the two men who fought for the presidency prepared them to lead the United States.
For nearly 50 years, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained a "delicate balance of terror." The threat of "Mutually Assured Destruction," or MAD served as a deterrent against the use of nuclear weapons by either side.
As president, George W. Bush will face issues that touch how Americans live, where they live, how their children's future will be shaped and how the nation will interact with the world outside its borders.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy   (1281 words)

  
 Propaganda Matrix.com - Exposing the New World Order and Government Sponsored Terrorism
The two leading contenders for the U.S. presidency are both members of Skull and Bones, one of the oldest secret societies in America.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive_skull_and_bones.html   (1348 words)

  
 Democracy in America
This unit includes Tocqueville& essay on religion and his memories of other religious leaders in America, as well as citations on religion from Democracy in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville& Democracy in America is a classic work, one of the first in which an “Old World” author wrote seriously and at length about the American experiment in popular government.
It is true that the idea of nature we see in the work of the Hudson River School relates to Tocqueville& image of America, but we may not need to understand the European antecedents of this school to appreciate this.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/d/265/whm.html   (743 words)

  
 School Work on democracy in america
Religion and politics go hand in hand in America, because the Christianity of the settlers was highly democratic and republican in character.
He stated that the Indian tribes were gradually disappearing from America as a result of strain from the settlers and on their land.
The first volume made it seem that Tocqueville was very positive about America’s government and society.
http://www.123schoolwork.com/show_essay/260896.html   (166 words)

  
 Democracy in America Project
Deepening political division is threatening the health of America.
Is a growing national policy conversation external to the current "red-blue" political system oriented toward "what we are for" as opposed to "what we are against."
a "microcosm of America" (includes and honors all points of view.)
http://www.democracycampaign.org   (371 words)

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