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These excerpts and page references are from Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mentor Book edition, edited by Richard D. Heffner (New York: The New American Library, 1956), as reprinted in an article entitled "Democracy in America: A Challenge to Free Men" by Robert G. Bearce, which appeared in the January 1976 issue of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.