... ' as used by Tocqueville in "Democracy in America", according to Stephen Holmes, is 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 " ... és vers leur proper raison comme vers la source la plus visible et la plus proche de la verité"7). "In this way", Holmes observes, "social leveling naturally produces a predilection for democratic self-rule", which basically means that when the ...

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... been reports on Blackwater soldiers working for the Ukrainian government or army, though these reports are yet to be confirmed by official sources. Blackwater is the main exponent of what mercenary means and does around the world with the main contracts coming from the USA they have a large pool of recruits coming from the soldiers that fought in Iraq or Afghanistan ... ...

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... its members . . . But this union was purchased by the loss of national freedom and military spirit; and the servile provinces, destitute of life and motion, expected their safety from the mercenary troops and governors, who were directed by the orders of a distant court. The happiness of a hundred millions depended on the personal merit of one or two men, perhaps children, whose ... ...

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