Tocqueville, covenant, and the democratic revolution : harmonizing earth with heaven /
Allen, Barbara,1953-
Lanham : Lexington Books,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-382) and index.
Point of departure : covenant and the democratic revolution -- Orderly knit together : colonial covenants and federations -- Harmonizing earth with heaven : church and state in the federal republic -- Another form of hope : religious belief and the democratic soul -- The art and science of association : the federal matrix and the voluntary society -- A failure of heart and mind : conformity, uniformity and despotism in the democratic social power -- Bonds of affection : republican motherhood, sacrifice, and civic virtue -- Bonds of affliction : race ideology and the limits of democratic progress -- Servitude or freedom? :  enlightenment and the new science of politics.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Democracy