...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ...is de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...than a year; the former usually sit two or three years. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed... ...d although the de- cision of the Senate is judicial in its form, since the Senators are obliged to comply with the practices and formalities of a cour... ...e House of Representatives. It was decided that each State should send two senators to Congress, and a number of representatives proportioned to its p... ...art exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania, and New York the race is extinct; and...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the libertie...