De la Democratie en Amerique By Alexis de Tocqueville Matieres Introduction I-Configuration exterieure de l'Amerique du Nord II-Du point de depart et de son importance pour l'avenir des Anglo-Americains --Raisons de quelques singularites que presentent les lois et les coutumes des Anglo-Americains III-Etat social des Anglo-Americains --Que le point saillant de l'etat social des Anglo-Americains est essentiellement d'etre democratique --Consequences politiques de l'etat social des Anglo-Americains IV-Du principe ...
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De la Democratie en Amerique By Alexis de Tocqueville Matieres Introduction I-Configuration exterieure de l'Amerique du Nord II-Du point de depart et de son importance pour l'avenir des Anglo-Americains --Raisons de quelques singularites que presentent les lois et les coutumes des Anglo-Americains III-Etat social des Anglo-Americains --Que le point saillant de l'etat social des Anglo-Americains est essentiellement d'etre democratique --Consequences politiques de l'etat social des Anglo-Americains IV-Du principe de la souverainete du people en Amerique V-Necessite d'etudier ce qui se passe dans les Etats particuliers, avant de parler du gouvernement de l'Union --Du systeme communal en Amerique --Circonscription de la commune --Pouvoirs communaux dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre --De l'existence communale --De l'esprit communal dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre --Du comte dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre --De l'administration dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre --Idees generales sur l'administration aux Etats-Unis --De l'Etat --Pouvoir legislatif de l'Etat --Du pouvoir executif de l'Etat --Des effets politiques de la decentralisation administrative aux Etats-Unis VI-Du pouvoir judiciaire aux Etats-Unis et de son action sur la societe politique --Autres pouvoirs accordes aux juges americains VII-Du jugement politique aux Etats-Unis VIII-De la constitution federale --Historique de la constitution federale --Tableau sommaire de la constitution federale --Attributions du gouvernement federal --Pouvoir federaux --Pouvoirs legislatifs --Autre difference entre le senat et la chambre des representants --Du pouvoir executif --En quoi la position du president aux Etats-Unis differe de celle d'un roi constitutionnel en France --causes accidentelles qui peu vent accroitre l'influence du pouvoir executif --Pourquoi le president des Etats-Unis n'a pas besoin, pour diriger les affaires, d'avoir la majorite dans les chambres --De l'election du president --Mode de l'election --Crise de l'election --De la reelection du president --Des tribunaux federaux --Maniere de fixer la competence des tribunaux federaux --Differents cas de juridiction --Maniere de proceder des tribunaux federaux --Rang eleve qu'occupe la Cour supreme parmi les grands pouvoirs de l"etat --En quoi la constitution federale est superieure a la constitution des Etats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.
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Revised, corrected and augmented with a comparative examination of democracy in the United States and Switzerland, and an appendix. Text in French. Inscribed by the author: "à M. Courbis offert par l'auteur AT." Bound in a contemporary French binding of green quarter morocco over paper boards, marbled end-papers. Two volumes bound together in one, collating: viii, 512; viii, 476. Binding with slight chipping at the head of the spine, otherwise in excellent condition. Besides the present example, only one other inscribed copy of this 1850 revised edition can be found in the auction record, selling for 11, 875 euro in 2013. De Tocqueville's seminal work on American government, first printed the same year in Paris. De Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, visited America between 1831 and 1832, ostensibly to study the penal system, although his interest was considerably broader. It seems logical that France would look to America as a beacon of hope for a successful democracy. After France embraced the goals of equality and democracy in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, it found itself first in a dictatorship under Napoleon and then in one constitutional monarchy after another during the years following. De Tocqueville's astute observation of several aspects of American society and culture provides an invaluable lens of foreign perspective on our young nation's political growth. Democracy in America was an immediate and sustained success. Almost from the beginning it enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has maintained its place high within the pantheon of political writing. "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good" (The New York Times). Library of Congress: A Passion for Liberty, Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy & Revolution (Washington, 1989).
