"...On the one hand, all males had equal political rights and the people governed itself; on the other hand, adultery and homosexuality could be punished with death. Such discipline had eased by the 1830s, of course, but Tocqueville still believed that democracy worked in America in large part because of the relatively strict moral code which all classes of American society tended to observe...." DK
I do have a lot of doubts regarding various assertions in this part, both Tocqueville, DK, and reality.
No comments:
Post a Comment