From "The Habit of Democracy" by Adam Gopnik in the 15 October 2001 issue of The New Yorker, a review of two books about Alexis de Tocqueville:
"There is nothing absolute in the theoretical value of political institutions," Tocqueville wrote. "Their efficiency depends almost always on the original circumstances and the social conditions of the people to whom they are applied."
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Posted on October 16th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
Categories: commonplace book, history, politics
Tags: politics, relativism, the_new_yorker, tocqueville
