Liberating Equality: The Spirit of the Lawyer and the Judicial Power in Tocqueville

• In Event: Tocqueville and the Constitution of Equality: Past, Present and Future

Brief Overview

Examines relationship between spirit of the lawyer (DA, vol 1) and his encomium to the judicial power in vol 2. I argue that while both remain visible today, judicial power is the more effective check on democratic despotism.

Author

• David Paul Ramsey, University of West Florida