Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution - Harmonizing Earth with Heaven (Paperback, annotated edition)

Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, with its 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 offered broader lessons in the art and science of self-government. An important book for scholars of Tocqueville as well as American political thought, this book suggests that an understanding of the American covenant tradition is critical to our interpretation of Tocqueville's analysis of the democratic revolution and the 'new science of politics' it necessitated.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	August 2005
Authors:	Barbara Allen
Dimensions:	228 x 154 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-1174-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	0-7391-1174-4
Barcode:	9780739111741

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