Tocqueville on Catholicism and Democracy : Views from Latin America
2004 ◽
Vol 25
(2)
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pp. 141-162
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Tocqueville proposed that mores or what he called “habits of the heart” were the main reason why a democratic republic—characterized by the mixture of political freedom and equality—had subsisted in the United States.1 After comparing North and South America, Tocqueville went further to argue that the lack of appropriate customs accounted for the fragility of the nascent Latin American republics. This raises a fundamental question: what are the origins of republican mores? Tocqueville concluded that in the United States the social state was the most important factor.
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1987 ◽
Vol 61
(1)
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pp. 112-121
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1909 ◽
Vol 37
(1712)
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pp. 401-406
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