"A Tocquevillian View of Reinvigorating the United States" makes the case that, although government has a limited role to play, it is private associations and voluntary activity – quintessentially American concepts nineteenth-century political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville characterized as "associations of a thousand other kinds" in his seminal work, Democracy in America (1831) – that hold the key to our nation's timely and complete recovery.A brief synopsis cannot capture its full import. To read the essay in its entirety, please click here.
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