Democracy in America: Abridged with an Introduction by Michael Kammen (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Alexis de Tocqueville & Michael Kammen & Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville & Michael Kammen & Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings [Tocqueville, Alexis de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2008-08-08T06:00:00+00:00

If the Americans, who elect a head of State every four years, legislators every two years, and replace provincial administrators every year and who have left politics to novices; if they had not put religion beyond politics, what would it have to hold onto in the ebb and flow of public opinion? In the middle of partisan fighting, where would it find the respect it is due? What would happen to its permanency when everything around it was disappearing?

The American clergy were the first to recognize this reality, and they have responded to it. They saw that, if they wanted political power, they would have to renounce their religious influence, and they preferred to do without the support of authority to having to share its vicissitudes.

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