6/6/2023 0 Comments Democracy in america volume 1More significantly, it is very easy to found a newspaper in America, so they proliferate in all parts of the country and are not centralized. He notes that newspapers contain many more advertisements in the United States than French newspapers do. Though press freedom is entrenched, Tocqueville argues that the press is “weak” because the country as a whole is “rarely troubled by profound passions” (175). More fundamentally, they reject the idea that any court could be objective enough to criticize a newspaper and control it. The sovereignty of the people and freedom of the press are therefore two entirely correlative things: censorship and universal suffrage are, on the contrary, two things that contradict each other and cannot be found in the political institutions of the same people for long (174).Īmericans accept press freedom because criticisms of the law are permissible.
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