However, since he, like many other political philosophers, believed that no political or legal system lacks a component in which "an absolute and unconstrained power"5 is concentrated and sovereignty, in the Hobbesian sense, is most definitely present, Tocqueville saw the American sovereign as being the majority. ... "That American political life was so active and varied", Richter continues, "he attributed in large part to the immense power of a free press, which 'circulates political life throughout every part of this vast territory'". But this is exa...

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