Democracy in America: Book Two电子书

Democracy In America: Book Two

Book Two: Influence of Democracy On Progress of Opinion In the United States

De Tocqueville's Preface to the Second Part

Section I: Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect In the United States

Chapter I: Philosophical Method Among the Americans

Chapter II: Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratic Nations

Chapter III: Why the Americans Display More Readiness And More Taste For General Ideas Than Their Forefathers, The English

Chapter IV: Why the Americans Have Never Been So Eager As the French For General Ideas In Political Matters

Chapter V: Of the Manner In Which Religion In the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendencies

Chapter VI: Of the Progress of Roman Catholicism In the United States

Chapter VII: Of the Cause of a Leaning to Pantheism Amongst Democratic Nations

Chapter VIII: The Principle of Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man

Chapter IX: The Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Can Have No Aptitude And No Taste For Science, Literature, Or Art

Chapter X: Why the Americans Are More Addicted to Practical Than to Theoretical Science

Chapter XI: Of the Spirit In Which the Americans Cultivate the Arts

Chapter XII: Why the Americans Raise Some Monuments So Insignificant, And Others So Important

Chapter XIII: Literary Characteristics of Democratic Ages

Chapter XIV: The Trade of Literature

Chapter XV: The Study of Greek And Latin Literature Peculiarly Useful In Democratic Communities

Chapter XVI: The Effect of Democracy On Language

Chapter XVII: Of Some of the Sources of Poetry Amongst Democratic Nations

Chapter XVIII: Of the Inflated Style of American Writers And Orators

Chapter XIX: Some Observations On the Drama Amongst Democratic Nations

Chapter XX: Characteristics of Historians In Democratic Ages

Chapter XXI: Of Parliamentary Eloquence In the United States

Section 2: Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of Americans

Chapter I: Why Democratic Nations Show a More Ardent And Enduring Love of Equality Than of Liberty

Chapter II: Of Individualism In Democratic Countries

Chapter III: Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic Revolution Than at Other Periods

Chapter IV: That the Americans Combat the Effects of Individualism By Free Institutions

Chapter V: Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations In Civil Life

Chapter VI: Of the Relation Between Public Associations And Newspapers

Chapter VII: Connection of Civil And Political Associations

Chapter VIII: The Americans Combat Individualism By the Principle of Interest Rightly Understood

Chapter IX: That the Americans Apply the Principle of Interest Rightly Understood to Religious Matters

Chapter X: Of the Taste For Physical Well-Being In America

Chapter XI: Peculiar Effects of the Love of Physical Gratifications In Democratic Ages

Chapter XII: Causes of Fanatical Enthusiasm In Some Americans

Chapter XIII: Causes of the Restless Spirit of Americans In the Midst of Their Prosperity

Chapter XIV: Taste For Physical Gratifications United In America to Love of Freedom And Attention to Public Affairs

Chapter XV: That Religious Belief Sometimes Turns the Thoughts of the Americans to Immaterial Pleasures

Chapter XVI: That Excessive Care of Worldly Welfare May Impair That Welfare

Chapter XVII: That In Times Marked By Equality of Conditions And Sceptical Opinions, It Is Important to Remove to a Distance the Objects of Human Actions

Chapter XVIII: That Amongst the Americans All Honest Callings Are Honorable

Chapter XIX: That Almost All the Americans Follow Industrial Callings

Chapter XX: That Aristocracy May Be Engendered By Manufactures

Book Three: Influence of Democracy On Manners, Properly So Called

Chapter I: That Manners Are Softened As Social Conditions Become More Equal

Chapter II: That Democracy Renders the Habitual Intercourse of the Americans Simple And Easy

Chapter III: Why the Americans Show So Little Sensitiveness In Their Own Country, And Are So Sensitive In Europe

Chapter IV: Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters

Chapter V: How Democracy Affects the Relation of Masters And Servants

Chapter VI: That Democratic Institutions And Manners Tend to Raise Rents And Shorten the Terms of Leases

Chapter VII: Influence of Democracy On Wages

Chapter VIII: Influence of Democracy On Kindred

Chapter IX: Education of Young Women In the United States

Chapter X: The Young Woman In the Character of a Wife

Chapter XI: That the Equality of Conditions Contributes to the Maintenance of Good Morals In America

Chapter XII: How the Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes

Chapter XIII: That the Principle of Equality Naturally Divides the Americans Into a Number of Small Private Circles

Chapter XIV: Some Reflections On American Manners

Chapter XV: Of the Gravity of the Americans, And Why It Does Not Prevent Them From Often Committing Inconsiderate Actions

Chapter XVI: Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Restless And Captious Than That of the English

Chapter XVII: That the Aspect of Society In the United States Is at Once Excited And Monotonous

Chapter XVIII: Of Honor In the United States And In Democratic Communities

Chapter XIX: Why So Many Ambitious Men And So Little Lofty Ambition Are to Be Found In the United States

Chapter XX: The Trade of Place-Hunting In Certain Democratic Countries

Chapter XXI: Why Great Revolutions Will Become More Rare

Chapter XXII: Why Democratic Nations Are Naturally Desirous of Peace, And Democratic Armies of War

Chapter XXIII: Which Is the Most Warlike And Most Revolutionary Class In Democratic Armies?

Chapter XXIV: Causes Which Render Democratic Armies Weaker Than Other Armies at the Outset of a Campaign, And More Formidable In Protracted Warfare

Chapter XXV: Of Discipline In Democratic Armies

Chapter XXVI: Some Considerations On War In Democratic Communities

Book Four: Influence of Democratic Opinions On Political Society

Chapter I: That Equality Naturally Gives Men a Taste For Free Institutions

Chapter II: That the Notions of Democratic Nations On Government Are Naturally Favorable to the Concentration of Power

Chapter III: That the Sentiments of Democratic Nations Accord With Their Opinions In Leading Them to Concentrate Political Power

Chapter IV: Of Certain Peculiar And Accidental Causes Which Either Lead a People to Complete Centralization of Government, Or Which Divert Them From It

Chapter V: That Amongst the European Nations of Our Time the Power of Governments Is Increasing, Although the Persons Who Govern Are Less Stable

Chapter VI: What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear

Chapter VII: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters

Chapter VIII: General Survey of the Subject

Appendix to Parts I And II

Part I

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

Part II

Appendix G

Appendix H

Appendix I

Appendix K

Appendix L

Appendix M

Appendix N

Appendix O

Appendix P

Appendix Q

Appendix R

Appendix S

Appendix T

Appendix U

Appendix V

Appendix W

Appendix X

Appendix Y

Appendix Z

Constitution of the United States of America

Article I

Section 1. All Legislative Powers Herein Granted Shall Be Vested

Section 2. The House of Representatives Shall Be Composed of Members

Section 3. The Senate of the United States Shall Be Composed

Section 4. The Times, Places And Manner of Holding Elections For

Section 5. Each House Shall Be the Judge of the Elections, Returns

Section 6. The Senators And Representatives Shall Receive a Compensation

Section 7. All Bills For Raising Revenue Shall Originate In the House Of

Section 8. The Congress Shall Have Power to Lay And Collect Taxes

Section 9. The Migration Or Importation of Such Persons As Any of The

Section 10. No State Shall Enter Into Any Treaty, Alliance

Article II

Section 1. The Executive Power Shall Be Vested In a President

Section 2. The President Shall Be Commander In Chief of the Army And

Section 3. He Shall From Time to Time Give to the Congress Information

Section 4. The President, Vice-President And All Civil Officers

Article III

Section 1. The Judicial Power of the United States Shall Be Vested In

Section 2. The Judicial Power Shall Extend to All Cases, In Law And

Section 3. Treason Against the United States Shall Consist Only In

Article IV

Section 1. Full Faith And Credit Shall Be Given In Each State

Section 2. The Citizens of Each State Shall Be Entitled to All

Section 3. New States May Be Admitted By the Congress Into This Union

Section 4. The United States Shall Guarantee to Every State In This

Article V

Article VI

Article VII

Bill of Rights