Tocquevillian Education for Self-Governance

Tocqueville (2000) found the source of the liberty, prosperity, and order he obseved in America in the mores of the American people.  Other countries with similar geographic advantages had imitated much of the constitution and legislation of the United States, but had "not become habituated to the government of democracy."

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