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## CONTENTS the state of nature. Tocqueville, however, does not build his understanding of democracy on the liberal state of nature first conceived by Thomas Hobbes, Benedict Spinoza, and John Locke. He does not refer to that concept in Democracy in America.18 He also was far from developing a "philosophy of history" in the thoroughgoing manner of the German philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel (1770Hegel ( -1831)). 19 But his liberalism, while totally lacking in Hegel's confidence that history was progress in reason, joined in his protest against abstract, state-of-nature liberalism. From Tocqueville's viewpoint, even Madison's liberalism seemed lacking in concrete observation of America, above all of the democratic revolution there. In Federalist 10, Madison's most famous statement of his liberalism, he distinguishes a democracy from a republic. A democracy is popular government in which the people rule directly, as in ancient cities; and a republic is one in which the people rule indirectly through their representatives, who "refine and enlarge" their views. The system of representation was largely unknown to the ancients and was invented by modern political science, says Alexander Ham
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- Author
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Harvey C. Mansfield, Delba Winthrop, Gustave de Beaumont, Eduardo Nolla, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer, J. P. Mayer
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226805320
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Law, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (60 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- De la démocratie en Amérique (Philosophie) (2010)
- Democracy in America, Volume 2 (Vintage Classics) (2006)
- Democracy in America (2006)
- Democracy in America, Volume 1 (Vintage Classics) (1990)
- Democracy in America (1969)
- Democracy in America, Volume 2 (2002)
- Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition of De la democratie en Amerique (4 volume set) (2010)
- Democracy in America : The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (2006)
- Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (Mentor) (1984)
- Democracy in America : Volumes I & II (2009)
- Democracy in America (2 Volumes) (1945)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147): A new translation by Arthur Goldhammer (Library of America) (2004)
- De la démocratie en Amérique (Tome 2) (2018)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147): A new translation by Arthur Goldhammer (Library of America) (2012)
- Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (2011)
- Democracy in America: Abridged (2011)
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings ; abridged with an introduction by (2006)
- Democracy in America. Volumes I & II (2003)
- Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (2006)
- De la démocratie en Amérique (Philosophie, 1) (1981)
- Democracy in America: Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (2002)
- Democracy in America, Volume 1 (2012)
- Democracy in America, Volume 2 (2012)
- Democracy In America Alexis De Tocqueville (2001)
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