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Note on this Reeve Edition
Preface to this Edition
Introductory Notice
Introductory Chapter 3
Ch. I Exterior form of North America 14
Ch. II Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and its importance in relation to their future condition 20
Ch. III Social condition of the Anglo-Americans 35
Ch. IV The principle of the sovereignty of the people in America 41
Ch. V Necessity of examining the condition of the States before that of the Union at Large 44
Ch. VI Judicial power in the United States, and its influence on political society 73
Ch. VII Political jurisdiction in the United States 79
Ch. VIII The Federal Constitution 84
Ch. IX Why the people may strictly be said to govern in the United States 133
Ch. X Parties in the United States 134
Ch. XI Liberty of the Press in the United States 140
Ch. XII Political associations in the United States 147
Ch. XIII Government of the Democracy in America 154
Ch. XIV What the real advantages are which American Society derives from the Government of the Democracy 186
Ch. XV Unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its consequences 201
Ch. XVI Causes which mitigate the tyranny of the majority in the United States 215
Ch. XVII Principal causes which tend to maintain the Democratic Republic in the United States 228
Ch. XVIII The present and probable future condition of the three Races which inhabit the territory of the United States 264
Opinions of the Present Work 344
Endnotes 347
Appendix 640
Index 691

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine - month journey through America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics and institutions. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post - revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age - even that they were the will of God. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority for anyone interested in the future of democracy. This volume includes the rarely translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an evocative account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois and Chippeway, and Excursion to Lake Oneida. This is the only edition that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, and it includes a chronology, further reading and explanatory notes.