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Religion is the foremost political institution in America though it takes no part in government

Drawn from what Alexis de Tocqueville said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What Alexis de Tocqueville actually said

  1. Alexis de Tocqueville French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859)
    Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must nevertheless be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions.

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