... regarded bilaterally, and alternates from being a "social arrangement" – based on "social leveling", "the collapse of legally maintained class hierarchies" – to being a "political system"– constructed on the idea of "self-government" that produces "institutions guaranteeing that rulers remain responsible to electoral majorities" 6. The differentiation between these two ... territory'". But this is exactly where Tocqueville found that the authority of the majority becomes a threat – in the influence on the spread of information that keeps political life alive; the power of though...

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