The Irresistible Movement of Democracy
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9781419136498
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy
First sentence: DE TOCQUEVILLE has told us that his great work, "Democracy in America," was written with a mind constantly occupied by a single thought-"that the advent of democracy as a governing power in the world's affairs, universal and irresistible, was at hand"; and in his first introduction, written in 1835, he ventured to make this prediction: The gradual development of the principle of Equality is a providential fact.