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…