A people of the law: Review of Kevin Butterfield’s "The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Law and Association in the Early United States"

Author

Christine Dunn HENDERSON, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Book Review

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

1-2017

Abstract

In The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy: Law and Association in the Early United States, Kevin Butterfield, assistant professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma, focuses on the proliferation of associations in the formative years of the American republic. Butterfield’s concern, however, is slightly different from Tocqueville’s, in that Butterfield is less intrigued by the question of why associations proliferated and how they preserve freedom in a democratic age, and more focused upon how these associations were constituted and functioned in the early American context.

Discipline

Philosophy

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Law and Liberty

First Page

1

Last Page

2

Publisher

Liberty Fund Network

Citation

HENDERSON, Christine Dunn.(2017). A people of the law: Review of Kevin Butterfield’s "The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Law and Association in the Early United States". Law and Liberty, , 1-2.

Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3377

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Picked up on Real Clear Books as “Review of Note”