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Legislative power of the State....
81
The executive power of the State.
83
Political effects of the system of local administration in the
United States
84
CHAPTER VI
Judicial power in the United States, and its influence on political
society
Other powers granted to American judges..
96
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.....
A further difference between the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives
118
The executive power...
119
Differences between the position of the President of the United
States and that of a Constitutional King of France......
Accidental causes which may increase the influence of the Ex-
ecutive Government
121
124
Why the President of the United States does not require the
majority of the two Houses in order to carry on the Govern-
Means of determining the jurisdiction of the Federal courts....
Different cases of jurisdiction......
141
142
Procedure of the Federal courts..
146
High rank of the Supreme Court amongst the great powers
of State
In what respects the Federal Constitution is superior to that
of the States..
Characteristics which distinguish the Federal Constitution of
the United States of America from all other Federal Con-
stitutions
.... 151
155
Advantages of the Federal system in general, and its special
utility in America
158
Why the Federal system is not adapted to all peoples, and how
the Anglo-Americans were enabled to adopt it......
164
Why the people may strictly be said to govern in the United States. 173
CHAPTER X.
Parties in the United States......
Remains of the aristocratic party in the United States..
CHAPTER XI
Liberty of the press in the United States.
CHAPTER XII.
Political associations in the United States.
191
CHAPTER XIII
Government of the democracy in America....
200
Universal suffrage
Choice of the people, and instinctive preferences of the Ameri-
can democracy
201
Causes which may partly correct these tendencies of the de-
mocracy
204
Influence which the American democracy has exercised on the
laws relating to elections....
207
Public officers under the control of the democracy in America.. 209
Arbitrary power of the magistrates under the rule of the
American democracy
Instability of the administration in the United States....
Charges levied by the State under the rule of the American
democracy
Tendencies of the American democracy as regards the salaries
of public officers....
211
213
.... 215
.... 219
Difficulty of distinguishing the causes which contribute to the
economy of the American Government....
Whether the expenditure of the United States can be compared
to that of France..
Corruption and vices of the rulers in a democracy, and con-
What the real advantages are which American society derives from
the government of the democracy..
General tendency of the laws under the rule of the American
democracy, and habits of those who apply them...
Activity which pervades all the branches of the body politic in
the United States; influence which it exercises upon society.. 253
CHAPTER XV
Unlimited power of the majority in the United States, and its con-
sequences
How the unlimited power of the majority increases in America
the instability of legislation and administration inherent in
Tyranny of the majority..
258
261
263
Effects of the unlimited power of the majority upon the ar-
bitrary authority of the American public officers....
Power exercised by the majority in America upon opinion..... 267
Effects of the tyranny of the majority upon the national char-
acter of the Americans....
266
270
The greatest dangers of the American republics proceed from
the unlimited power of the majority..
273
CHAPTER XVI
....
Causes which mitigate the tyranny of the majority in the United
States
275
Absence of central administration..
...
The profession of the law in the United States serves to coun-
terpoise the democracy......
277
Trial by jury in the United States considered as a political insti-
tution
285
CHAPTER XVII
Principal causes which tend to maintain the democratic republic in
the United States.....
292
Accidental or providential causes which contribute to the main-
tenance of the democratic republic in the United States...... 292
Influence of the laws upon the maintenance of the democratic
republic in the United States......
303
Influence of manners upon the maintenance of the democratic
republic in the United States....
304
Religion considered as a political institution which powerfully
contributes to the maintenance of the democratic republic
amongst the Americans.
Indirect influence of religious opinions upon political society in
the United States....
308
Principal causes which render religion powerful in America.... 313
How the instruction, the habits, and the practical experience of
the Americans promote the success of their democratic insti-
tutions
320
324
The laws contribute more to the maintenance of the democratic
republic in the United States than the physical circumstances
of the country, and the manners more than the laws.................
Whether laws and manners are sufficient to maintain demo-
cratic institutions in other countries besides America....... 329
Importance of what precedes with respect to the state of Europe 332
CHAPTER XVIII
The present and probable future condition of the three races which
inhabit the territory of the United States.....
... 337
The present and probable future condition of the Indian tribes
which inhabit the territory possessed by the Union.......... 342
Situation of the black population in the United States, and dan-
gers with which its presence threatens the whites... .... 361
What are the chances in favor of the duration of the American
Union, and what dangers threaten it........
Of the republican institutions of the United States, and what
their chances of duration are.......
Reflection on the causes of the commercial prosperity of the
United States......
Conclusion of the First Part.
387
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428
436