Chapter One
CHAPTER III: SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANSA social condition is commonly the result of circumstances, sometimes of laws, oftener still of these two causes united; but wherever it exists, it may justly be considered as the source of almost all the laws, the usages, and the ideas which regulate the conduct of nations; whatever it does not produce it modifies. It is therefore necessary, if we would become acquainted with the legislation and the manners of a nation, to begin by the study of its social condition.
THE STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS IN ITS ESSENTIAL DEMOCRACYThe first emigrants of New England-Their equality-Aristocratic laws introduced in the South-Period of the Revolution-Change in the law of descent-Effects produced by this change-Democracy carried to its u ...
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