1. Liberty in Democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat interested in an involvement in politics and looking to find democratic answers to France's main social and political issues, regarded the American system as an incredibly efficient model of democracy for its success at balancing liberty and equality in a manner that comes close to the 'ideal' he formulated as follows: "It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and be confounded together. ... However, when legal stratification is no longer part of the equation, the barriers to communica...
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