“ When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments. ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). copy citation
| Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
|---|---|
| Source | Democracy in America |
| Topic | politics America degenerating impeachment |
| Date | 1835 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Henry Reeve |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm |
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“By preventing political tribunals from inflicting judicial punishments the Americans seem to have eluded the worst consequences of legislative tyranny, rather than tyranny itself; and I am not sure that political jurisdiction, as it is constituted in the United States, is not the most formidable weapon which has ever been placed in the rude grasp of a popular majority. When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.*d
B [ Chap. I. sect. II. Section 8.]
C [ See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia.]
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B [ Chap. I. sect. II. Section 8.]
C [ See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia.]
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