Tocqueville appealed to America as the model of democracy built on the separations of powers, the rule of law, and the mores of a self-governing people.
The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved.
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