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... 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... ...s unfit for any public duty or trust. In a town government, having a small area of jurisdiction, where the voice of the majority of qualified vot- ers... ...; I had rather injure the success of my statements than add my name to the list of those strangers who repay the generous hospitality they have receiv... ...ngst others, the Missouri, which traverses a space of 2,500 miles; the Ar- kansas of 1,300 miles, the Red River 1,000 miles, four whose course is from... ... a corrupt nature which is effected both by men and beasts to do what they list, and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all res... ...re sluggish inclinations in England and America than in France. The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every o... ...nd T erritories had increased to 51, the population to 62,831,900, and the area of the States, 3,602,990 square miles. This does not include the Phili... ...ored wilder- ness, possessed 940 miles of mail-roads. The territory of Ar- kansas, which is still more uncultivated, was already inter- sected by 1,93...

...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...