It is not engendered by the laws, but the people learns how to promote it by the experience derived from legislation.
When the opponents of democracy assert that a single individual performs the duties which he undertakes much better than the government of the community, it appears to me that they are perfectly right.

The government of an individual, supposing an equality of instruction on either side, is more consistent, more persevering, and more accurate than that of a multitude, and it is much better qualified judiciously to discriminate the characters of the men it employs.

If any deny what I advance, they have certainly never seen a democratic government, or have formed their opinion upon very partial evidence.

It is true that even when local circumstances and the disposition of the people allow democratic institutions to subsist, they never display a regular and methodical system of government.

Democratic liberty is far from accomplishing all the projects it undertakes, with the skill of an adroit despotism.