Читать книгу Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville - Страница 22
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Until now, I have examined the institutions, I have surveyed the written laws, I have depicted the current forms of political society in the United States.
But above all institutions and beyond all forms resides a sovereign power, that of the people, which destroys or modifies institutions and forms as it pleases.
I have yet to make known by what paths this power, which dominates the laws, proceeds; what its instincts, its passions are; what secret motivating forces push, slow or direct it in its irresistible march; what effects its omnipotence produces, and what future is reserved for it.a
