Tocqueville, covenant, and the democratic revolution : harmonizing earth with heaven
"Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, which had a profound influence on his democratic theory. American democracy, Tocqueville maintained, had emerged from the covenant tradition of Reformed Protestantism. The covenant, or foederal, theology of New England Puritans provided the ideational basis for federated church and civil government, which directly influenced the American constitutionalism and the republican institutions that Tocqueville later observed. Tocqueville suggested that the principles underlying American constitutionalism offer broader lessons in the art and science of self-government
xix, 393 pages ; 24 cm
9780739110645, 9780739111741, 0739110640, 0739111744
59147868
Point of departure : covenant and the democratic revolution
Orderly knit together : colonial covenants and federations
Harmonizing earth with heaven : church and state in the federal republic
Another form of hope : religious belief and the democratic soul
The art and science of association : the federal matrix and the voluntary society
A failure of heart and mind : conformity, uniformity and despotism in the democratic social power
Bonds of affection : republican motherhood, sacrifice, and civic virtue
Bonds of affliction : race ideology and the limits of democratic progress
Servitude or freedom? : enlightenment and the new science of politics