Democracy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Democracy<br><br>The publishers of the Family Library offer the following work to the public as a treatise on "Democracy" in the broadest sense of the word - government by the People. Such a treatise may, they think, not improperly lay claim to novelty; no work, to their knowledge, having ever yet been published, the express design of which is to elucidate the democratic theory. That some such work ought to be in the hands of every American citizen it is needless to urge. To claim the right of political self-government, without being able to tell why - to declaim about liberty, without being able to define what that liberty is - are what, in this country, no one should be guilty of; and yet how few among us really understand the fundamental principles of institutions which all are ready to eulogize, in the rights and benefits of which all equally participate, and the practical operation of which all unite to direct.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.