Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
Source: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 5
“With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.”
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter V.
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