{"id":248,"date":"2013-08-21T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:03:36","slug":"analects-of-the-core-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/08\/21\/analects-of-the-core-180\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Tocqueville on complacent legislators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s analect relates to CC203&#8217;s study of the foundation of social sciences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Propitious circumstances and good laws might succeed in drawing to the legislature of a democratic people men very superior to those who are returned by the Americans to Congress ; but nothing will ever prevent the men of slender abilities who sit there from obtruding themselves with complacency, and in all ways, upon the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?pg=PA112&amp;dq=Democracy+in+America&amp;id=gTX-uSzS2fAC#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">google books, p. 112<\/a>) translated by Henry Reeve, Esq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s analect relates to CC203&#8217;s study of the foundation of social sciences: Propitious circumstances and good laws might succeed in drawing to the legislature of a democratic people men very superior to those who are returned by the Americans to Congress ; but nothing will ever prevent the men of slender abilities who sit there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[2875,48735,3837,48421,3811,1291,2957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}