815.txt

Is democracy a fragile experiment or a self-sustaining machine? 🏛️

The file identifier is most famously associated with the Project Gutenberg digital edition of Democracy in America (Volume 1) by Alexis de Tocqueville . 815.txt

I’ve been revisiting Alexis de Tocqueville’s " Democracy in America " (via the classic 815.txt file from Project Gutenberg). Writing in the 1830s, Tocqueville saw both the brilliance and the potential "tyranny of the majority" in the American system. Is democracy a fragile experiment or a self-sustaining