POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Egotism, Mixed Government, Alexis De Tocqueville
21 Mar 2017
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March of society, gives a certain direction to the public mind, certain turn to the laws, to those governing, new maxims and particular habits to the governed. Political laws, has no less dominion over civil society than over governments, it creates opinions gives birth to sentiments, suggest customs and modifies all that it does not produce. Kings ruin themselves, influence of money is felt in affairs of state: trade as a new source of power, enlightenment spreads. In the 16th c, nobility had an inestimable value (louis xv) Everywhere you see people turn to the profit of democracy, those who had in view contributing to its success and those who did not think of saving it, those who fought for it and declared themselves its enemies. Equality of conditions of democracy is a providential fact, is universal, escapes very day from human power.
