A Not-so-secret Contempt
Tocqueville was right about America's judges
“A completely democratic government is so dangerous an instrument that, even in America, men have been obliged to take a host of precautions against [its] errors and passions,” wrote the great French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville in his diary, as he toured America between 1831 and 1832.
Among the precautions Americans had taken, Tocqueville continues…
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