ABSTRACT
Democracy is a complex notion, at once a set of values and an organizing system, and its historical development is equally complex. If the democratic ideal of equality of conditions is now widely held to be the goal of political governance, its strategic implementation has nonetheless thrown up some troubling paradoxes. Democracy in America, each containing two books, chronicle the development of the United States as a nation founded on freedom, rights, and interests, which fostered the growth of the unlimited power of the majority'. It first outlines the origins, social conditions, and political constitution of the American nation. It explores the cultural dimensions of its democratic society. The new republic of the United States of America, codified in the Declaration of Independence of 1776, became the standard-bearer for the possible worlds that democracy might bring into being in nineteenth-century Europe.
