Lesson 34: What Is the Importance of Civic Engagement to American Constitutional Democracy?

Primary Sources


Tocqueville--Democracy in America, 1835, 1840

A review of American representational government in the 1830s, focusing on the reasons for success in America versus attempts and failures in other places.

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