Title page from Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4

Part of: Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (LF ed. 2010) Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, vol. 4

A new 4 volume edition of Tocqueville’s classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique. The original was published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volume focused primarily on political society; the second, on civil society. The online version of Liberty Fund’s edition contains only the English translation of the French critical edition. Vol. 4 contains Parts III and IV and numerous appendices.

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After having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules, which the most original…

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