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"Nothing strikes a European traveler in the United States more," wrote Tocqueville, "than the absence of what we would call government or administration.
Yet, blinded by his negative passions about state power in France, Tocqueville failed to grasp what his observations meant about the early American state.
"Newspapers make associations, and associations make newspapers," Tocqueville wrote.
To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.
Tocqueville himself was well aware of many of these extralocal influences.