2017
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592717000895
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Tocqueville in Jacksonian Context: American Expansionism and Discourses of American Indian Nomadism inDemocracy in America

Abstract: Tocqueville’s discussion of American Indians inDemocracy in Americais often read as the paradigmatic expression of a conventional story about American political expansion. This narrative holds that westward expansion was easy, in part because American Indians did not offer much resistance. Historians of political thought and scholars of American Political Development tend to affirm this narrative when they read Tocqueville’s text as suggesting merely that Indians are “doomed” to an inevitable extinction. Our i… Show more

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“…. agents of the state systematically sought to uproot Indian nations and drive them westward” (McQueen and Hendrix 2017, 668–69). Tocqueville reports that the federal government executes this project in a “perfectly legal manner” and “exhibits the purest love of formalities and legalities” (375, 391).…”
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“…. agents of the state systematically sought to uproot Indian nations and drive them westward” (McQueen and Hendrix 2017, 668–69). Tocqueville reports that the federal government executes this project in a “perfectly legal manner” and “exhibits the purest love of formalities and legalities” (375, 391).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…We see these impressions reproduced directly in Tocqueville’s statements about the unique “strength,” “vigor,” and “energetic” self-driven activity that flows from a lack of bureaucracy—and in his worry that centralized public administration, were it someday to develop, “inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies” this “strength.” We know that reliance on elite American opinion is a feature of DA , regardless of its reliability, because we can see it in other areas as well—for instance, in Tocqueville’s toggling “between the different positions circulating during his time in America” regarding whether Indian communities are nomadic or not (McQueen and Hendrix 2017, 667).…”
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“… 1 See Balfour (2022), Benson (2017), Duong (2018), Janara (2004), Kohn (2002), McQueen and Hendrix (2017), Noll (2014), Olson (2004), Tillery (2009, 2018), Turner (2008), Welch (2003). …”
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