Tocqueville, 2013, p.21-64
2013
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Attacking the French Tradition: Popular Sovereignty Redefined in and through Local Liberties
- Ist Teil von
- Tocqueville, 2013, p.21-64
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- When Tocqueville decided to introduce the United States to the French public, he had no choice but to begin with what had been first the sphinx of the French Revolution and then the nightmare of the moderates: popular sovereignty. The fourth chapter of book 1 of the first volume ofDemocracy in Americawas devoted to this overwhelming idea: “Any discussion of the political laws of the United States has to begin with the dogma of popular sovereignty.”¹ The word “dogma” indicated how the question was to be approached. But this particular dogma gave rise to two very different religions,
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691152042, 0691152047DOI: 10.1515/9781400846726-003Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt24hptw_5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Aristocracy, Behavioral sciences, Bourgeois, Civil rights, Communes, Communities, Democracy, Doctrinal theology, Government, Human geography, Human societies, Law, Legal rights, Liberalism, Metropolitan areas, Middle class, Monarchism, Monarchy, Oligarchy, Political geography, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political regimes, Political science, Political systems, Popular sovereignty, Religion, Religious orthodoxy, Social classes, Social groups, Social sciences, Social stratification, Social structures, Sociology, Systematic theology, Theology, Towns, Traditionalism, Voting rights