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Jem Thomas’s letter suggests to me that ‘ständisch, Stand’ are precisely what Tocqueville was concerned with in Democracy in America. In his opening sentence Tocqueville says that nothing caught his consideration in the United States a lot as ‘l’égalité des conditions’. This phrase has given modern readers and translators lots of bother, as ‘co […] View