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Tocqueville's Constitutionalism

Author:Robert P. Kraynak
Publication Info: American Political Science Review 81:4 December 1987
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  • Nineteenth Century United States(1800–1899)
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In Democracy in America, Tocqueville attempts to combine both the ancient view (regime analysis) and the modern view (federalism, judicial review, separation of powers) of constitutionalism in his interpretation of the US constitutional system, weaving them into an original and coherent whole.

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