...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...iar people, or that it would be impracticable in any different country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people ... ...y unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, M. De Tocqueville says: “Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention dur- ing my stay in t... ...of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described as “We, the people,” ... ...y espouse the cause of human liberty as the source of all moral greatness. Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God... ...ans North America peopled by men who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics for... ...r religious supremacy; they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...