The first duty imposed on
those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible,
new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions;
gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience
and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt
government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men
and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a
world itself quite new.
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
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Eran Shalev
Eran Shalev is assistant professor of History at the University of Haifa and in 2011 is a fellow
at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. He received his
B.A. and M.A. from Hebrew University (1997 and 2002, respectively), and his Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University in 2005. Shaley is the author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical
Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2009),
and is currently writing a book tentatively titled American Zion: Biblical Imagination and the
Political Bible from the Revolution to the Civil War.
