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• Translator’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• Key Terms
• Foreword
• The Manuscripts of Tocqueville
• Some Details Concerning the Present Edition
• Abbreviations and Symbols Used In This Edition
• Note On the Manuscripts
• Acknowledgments
• Illustrations
• Editor’s Introduction
• I: Legacies
• II: To Understand the Revolution
• Democracy In America a (1835), Volume I]: Part I
• Introduction a
• Chapter 1: Exterior Configuration of North America
• Chapter 2: Of the Point of Departure and Its Importance For the Future of the Anglo-americans a
• Reasons For Some Singularities That the Laws and Customs B of the Anglo-americans Present
• Chapter 3: Social State of the Anglo-americans
• That the Salient Point of the Social State of the Anglo-americans Is to Be Essentially Democratic
• Political Consequences of the Social State of the Anglo-americans
• Chapter 4: Of the Principle of the Sovereignty of the People In America
• Chapter 5: Necessity of Studying What Happens In the Individual States Before Speaking About the Government of the Union a
• Of the Town System In America C
• Town District
• Town Powers In New England
• Of Town Life
• Of Town Spirit In New England
• Of the County In New England
• Of Administration In New England a
• General Ideas On Administration In the United States
• Of the State
• Legislative Power of the State
• Of the Executive Power of the State
• Of the Political Effects of Administrative Decentralization In the United States C
• Chapter 6 A: of the Judicial Power In the United States and Its Action On Political Society B
• Other Powers Granted to American Judges
• Chapter 7: Of Political Jurisdiction In the United States Tn 4
• Chapter 8: Of the Federal Constitution
• Historical Background of the Federal Constitution a
• Summary Picture of the Federal Constitution J
• Attributions of the Federal Government
• Federal Powers
• Legislative Powers: R [difference Between the Constitution of the Senate and That of the House of Representatives]
• Another Difference Between the Senate and the House of Representatives W
• Of Executive Power 16
• How the Position of the President of the United States Differs From That of a Constitutional King In France
• Accidental Causes That Can Increase the Influence of the Executive Power
• Why the President of the United States, to Lead Public Affairs, Does Not Need to Have a Majority In the Chambers
• Of the Election of the President
• Mode of Election
• Election Crisis
• Of the Re-election of the President
• Of the Federal Courts 24
• Way of Determining the Jurisdiction Tn 5 of the Federal Courts
• Different Cases of Jurisdiction
• The Federal Courts’ Way of Proceeding
• Elevated Rank That the Supreme Court Occupies Among the Great Powers of the State
• How the Federal Constitution Is Superior to the State Constitutions
• What Distinguishes the Federal Constitution of the United States of America From All Other Federal Constitutions
• Of the Advantages of the Federal System In General, and of Its Special Utility For America M
• What Keeps the Federal System From Being Within the Reach of All Peoples; and What Has Allowed the Anglo-americans to Adopt It

Illustrations

The illustrations appear following the indicated page.

• 1.First page of the introduction to volume 1 lxxviii(with kind permission of the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 2.Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Léon Noël lxxviii(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 3.Battery Park, New York City, original pencil sketch by Gustave de Beaumont 100(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 4.Château de Tocqueville, photograph. No date. 100
• 5.Tocqueville on horseback, original pencil sketch by Gustave de Beaumont 200(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 6.Beaumont at Cannes, in 1859; original pencil sketch by Gustave de Beaumont 200(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 7.Portrait of Mary Mottley, artist unknown. 409(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 8.View of the Auburn prison, in the State of New York; original pencil sketch by Gustave de Beaumont 409(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 9.Niagara Falls, original watercolor by Gustave de Beaumont 648(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 10.Detail of a page from a copy of Chapter X, second part, vol. II 648(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 11.Map of the United States appearing in the first edition of Democracy in America (1835) 687(with kind permission from Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library).
• 12.Fragment from the Rubish 787(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 13.Stockbridge, original watercolor by Gustave de Beaumont 787(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 14.Château de Beaumont, original pencil drawing by Gustave de Beaumont 934(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 15.Hunter at the Hudson River, original pencil drawing by Gustave de Beaumont 934(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 16.Pencil comment of Tocqueville’s on Beaumont’s Marie manuscript 1024(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 17.Birds in Memphis, original watercolor by Gustave de Beaumont 1024(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 18.Portrait of Gustave de Beaumont, 1837 1175(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 19.A page from the working manuscript of Democracy 1175(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 20.Bird painted at Pontiac, original watercolor by Gustave de Beaumont 1330(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).
• 21.Saginaw Forest, original pencil sketch by Gustave de Beaumont 1330(with kind permission from the Beinecke Library, Yale University).