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 Union having no neighbours—no central metropolis, &c., i. 316. The chances of birth in the people's favour, i. 318. How the American wilds are peopled, i. 321. Avidity of the Anglo-Americans in taking possession of the solitudes of the New World, i. 321. Extracts from Chancellor Kent, i. 321. Influence of physical prosperity on the political opinions of the Americans, i. 323. Influence of manners upon the maintenance of the republic, i. 327. Influence of religion, considered as a political institution, i. 328. Its proper definition—a democratic and republican Christianity, i. 328. Arrival of the Catholics in America, i. 329. Catholicism the most democratic system of religion at the present time, i. 329. How the laws contribute more to the maintenance of a republic, than the physical circumstances of the country, i. 348. All the nations of America have a democratic society, but democratic institutions are to be found only in the United States, i. 349. The Spaniards of South America equally favoured by physical causes, are unable to maintain a democratic republic, i. 349. Mexico, an instance of this, it having adopted the constitution of the United States, is notwithstanding in the same predicament, i. 351. The Anglo-Americans of the west, less able to maintain it, than those of the east, i. 351. Reasons of these different results, i. 352.

Democratic institutions, how promoted by the habits and experience of the Americans, i. 343. What is to be understood by the instruction of the American people, i. 343. Instruction in the United States more superficial, but more general than in Europe, i. 345. Rapidity with which opinions are diffused over the western states, i. 346. Practical experience more serviceable to the Americans, than book-learning, i. 348. Whether laws and manners are sufficient to maintain them in other countries beside America, i. 353. That the Anglo-Americans, if in Europe, would be obliged to modify their laws, i. 353. Distinction between democratic institutions and American institutions, i. 354. Democratic laws may be conceived different from those of America, i. 355. That the example of America only proves it to be possible to regulate a democracy by the assistance of manners and legislation, i. 355. The importance of this with regard to Europe, i. 356.

Democratic communities, averse to reflection and meditation, ii. 43. Its members impatient of control, &c., ii. 94. Their love of equality the dominant passion, ii. 102. Prospective opinions upon, ii. 335.

Democratic armies, their desire for war, &c., ii. 280. Conflicting