...Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... vot- ers is conclusive, the fitness of the person who is to exercise that high representative privilege can be determined by his neighbors and acquai... ... to distinction, the splendor of its composition alone would entitle it to high place among the masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon t... ...of judicial institutions; each county has, however, a court of justice,* a sheriff to execute its decrees, and a prison for criminals. There are certa... ...o justices of the peace can, with the assent of the select- men, order the sheriff of the county to remove and take care of him. – Act of June 22, 179... ... Mont- gomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Philadelphia, for the year 1830. Their popula- tion at ...

...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 the principles of government that were essential t...