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Our "90 in 90 Essay Project Academic Studies" on subjects such as the Federalist Papers, the Constitution; the Amendments; the Classics that Inspired the Constitution, the Executive Branch, the country’s past 57 presidential elections, the Supreme Court, the Congress and the states have resulted in over 3,000 essays contributed by over 200 constitutional scholars, historians and elected officials. This corresponding Podcast features the reading of the daily essay during our 90-Day Study. Our essays have been listened to millions of times. Essays are available at ConstitutingAmerica.org and are archived, searchable and downloadable.

Episode Date
Essay 103: General Survey Of The Subject
Aug 25, 2025
Essay 102: Democracy in America: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters
Aug 21, 2025
Essay 101: Soft Despotism: What Sort Of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear
Aug 18, 2025
Essay 100: Among Contemporary European Nations The Sovereign Power Is Increasing Although The Rulers Are Less Stable
Aug 14, 2025
Essay 99: A Few Special And Accidental Reasons Why A Democratic Nation Adopts Centralization Of Government Or Turns Away From It
Aug 11, 2025
Essay 98: External Configuration Of Northern America–Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 1
Aug 07, 2025
Essay 97: That The Ideas Of Democratic Peoples In The Matter Of Government Are Naturally Favorable To The Concentration Of Powers
Aug 04, 2025
Essay 96: Equality Naturally Gives Men A Liking For Free Institutions
Jul 31, 2025
Essay 95: De Tocqueville on War
Jul 28, 2025
Essay 94: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Proper Role of the Military in a Democracy
Jul 24, 2025
Essay 93: Why Great Revolutions Will Happen Less Often
Jul 21, 2025
Essay 92: The Trade Of Seeking Official Positions In Certain Democratic Nations
Jul 17, 2025
Essay 91: Why So Many Ambitious Men Exist In The United States But So Few Lofty Ambitions
Jul 14, 2025
Essay 90: Honor In The United States And In Democratic Societies
Jul 10, 2025
Essay 89: How American Society Appears Both Agitated And Monotonous
Jul 07, 2025
Essay 88: Why The National Vanity Of The Americans Is More Restless And Quarrelsome Than That Of English
Jul 03, 2025
Essay 87: The Serious Attitude Of Americans And Why It Often Does Not Prevent Them From Ill Considered Actions
Jun 30, 2025
Essay 86: Some Reflections On American Manners
Jun 26, 2025
Essay 78: Religion, Virtue, and American Democracy
Jun 24, 2025
Essay 85: How The Equality Of Social Conditions Helps To Maintain Good Morals In America, How The American View The Equality Of Men And Women & How Quality Naturally Divides Americans Into A Multitude Of Small Private Societies
Jun 23, 2025
Essay 84: Education Of Girls In The United States & How The Girl Can Be Seen Beneath The Features Of The Wife
Jun 19, 2025
Essay 83: How Democratic Institutions And Customs Tend To Raise The Cost And Shorten The Eleventh Of Leases, Influence Of Democracy On Wages & Influence Of Democracy On The Family
Jun 16, 2025
Essay 82: How Democracy Modifies the Relations of Servant and Master
Jun 12, 2025
Essay 81: :“How Customs Become Softer As Social Conditions Become More Equal”, “How Democracy Makes The Normal Relations Between Americans Easier And Simples”, “Why Americans Are So Difficult To Offend At Home Yet So Easily Offended In Europe”
Jun 08, 2025
Essay 80: “What Gives Almost All Americans A Preference For Industrial Occupations" & “How An Aristocracy May Emerge From Industry”
Jun 05, 2025
Essay 79: Why Americans Consider All Honest Occupations As Honorable
Jun 02, 2025
Essay 77: How An Excessive Love Of Prosperity Can Harm That Very Prosperity
May 26, 2025
Essay 76: How Religious Beliefs at Times Turn the Souls of Americans toward Immaterial Enjoyments
May 22, 2025
Essay 75: How In America Taste For Physical Pleasures Is Combined With Love Of Freedom And Concern For Public Affairs
May 19, 2025
Essay 74: Why the Americans Show Themselves so Restive in the Midst of their Well-Being
May 15, 2025
Essay 73: Why Certain Americans Display An Exalted Form Of Spirituality
May 11, 2025
Essay 72: The Taste For Material Prosperity In America & Particular Effects Of The Love Of Physical Pleasures In Democratic Times
May 08, 2025
Essay 71: How Americans Apply The Doctrine Of Self-Interest Properly Understood To Religious Matters
May 04, 2025
Essay 70: How Americans Counteract Individualism By The Doctrine Of Self-Interest Properly Understood
May 01, 2025
Essay 69: Reflection on the Relations Between Civil Associations and Political Associations Democracy in America, Volume 2, Part II, Chapter 7
Apr 27, 2025
Essay 68: Connection Between Associations And Newspapers
Apr 23, 2025
Essay 67: The Use Americans Make For Public Associations In Civil Life
Apr 20, 2025
Essay 66: How Americans Combat The Effects Of Individualism By Free Institutions
Apr 17, 2025
Essay 65: How Individualism Is Greater At The End Of A Democratic Revolution Than Any Other Period
Apr 13, 2025
Essay 64: Individualism In Democratic Countries
Apr 10, 2025
Essay 63: Why Democratic Nations Display A More Passionate And Lasting Love For Equality Than For Freedom
Apr 07, 2025
Essay 62: Call Sometime When You Have No Class
Apr 03, 2025
Essay 61: Characteristics Peculiar To Historians In Democratic Ages
Mar 31, 2025
Essay 60: A Few Sources Of Poetry In Democratic Nations, Why American Writers And Speakers Are Often Bombastic & A Few Remarks On The Theater Of Democratic Nations
Mar 27, 2025
Essay 59: Why The Study Of Greek And Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful In Democratic Communities & How American Democracy Has Modified The English Language
Mar 24, 2025
Essay 58: How Literature Appears In Democratic Times & The Literature Industry
Mar 20, 2025
Essay 57: In What Spirit The Americans Cultivate The Arts & Why The Americans Erect Both Insignificant Monuments And Others Which Are Very Grand
Mar 17, 2025
Essay 56: Why Americans Are More Attracted To Practical Rather Than Theoretical Aspects Of The Sciences
Mar 13, 2025
Essay 55: How The Example Of The Americans Does Not Prove That A Democratic People Would Have Neither The Aptitude Nor The Taste For The Sciences, Literature, And The Arts
Mar 10, 2025
Essay 54: How Equality Suggests To Americans The Idea Of The Indefinite Perfectibility Of Man
Mar 06, 2025
Essay 53: How Religion In The United States Makes Full Use Of Democratic Tendencies
Mar 03, 2025
Essay 52: Why The Americans Show More Aptitude And Taste For General Ideas Than Their Forefathers The English & Why The Americans Have Never Been Enthusiastic As The French For General Ideas In Political Matters
Feb 27, 2025
Essay 51: Democracy in America: What We Learned from a French Aristocrat Long Ago
Feb 24, 2025
Essay 50: Examining Those Democratic Sentiments and Opinions That Exist in America, Especially in Forming Voluntary Associations
Feb 20, 2025
Essay 49: Democracy in America, Conclusion 1
Feb 17, 2025
Essay 48: A Few Reflections On The Reasons For The Commercial Greatness Of The United States Influenced by their Commerce
Feb 13, 2025
Essay 47: De Tocqueville: What Is the Difference Between the U.S. Republic and Others? (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 10, Subch. 4)
Feb 10, 2025
Essay 46: De Tocqueville: A Few Remarks On The Present Day State And The Probable Future Of The Three Races Which Live In The Territory Of The United States
Feb 06, 2025
Essay 45: De Tocqueville's Views On Race Relations In The United States
Feb 03, 2025
Essay 44: De Tocqueville's Views: Some Considerations on the Present State and Probable Future of the Indian Tribes That Inhabit the Territory Possessed by the Union
Jan 30, 2025
Essay 43: What American Democracy Means For Europe
Jan 27, 2025
Essay 42: The Way We Were (And Could Be Again)
Jan 23, 2025
Essay 41: Causes Tending to Undermine a Democratic Republic
Jan 20, 2025
Essay 40: The Main Causes Which Tend To Maintain A Democratic Republic In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 9, Subch. 7)
Jan 16, 2025
Essay 39: The Main Causes Which Tend To Maintain A Democratic Republic In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 9, Subch. 6)
Jan 13, 2025
Essay 38: The Main Causes Which Tend To Maintain A Democratic Republic In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 9, Subchs. 4-5)
Jan 09, 2025
Essay 37: The Main Causes Which Tend To Maintain A Democratic Republic In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 9, Subchs. 2-3)
Jan 06, 2025
Essay 36: The Main Causes Which Tend To Maintain A Democratic Republic In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 9, Subch. 1)
Jan 02, 2025
Essay 35: What Moderates The Tyranny Of The Majority In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 8)
Dec 30, 2024
Essay 34: The Majority In The United States Is All-Powerful And The Consequences Of That (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 7, Subchs. 4-6)
Dec 26, 2024
Essay 33: The Majority In The United States Is All-Powerful And The Consequences Of That (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 7, Subchs. 1-3)
Dec 23, 2024
Essay 32: What Are the Real Advantages That American Society Derives From the Government of Democracy (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 6, Subchs. 3-5)
Dec 19, 2024
Essay 31: What Are the Real Advantages That American Society Derives From the Government of Democracy (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 6, Subchs. 1-2)
Dec 16, 2024
Essay 30: Government By Democracy In America (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 5, Subch. 15)
Dec 12, 2024
Essay 29: Tocqueville on the Civic Virtues Needed by America’s Self-Governing Citizens
Dec 09, 2024
Essay 28: Government By Democracy In America (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 5, Subchs. 8-11)
Dec 05, 2024
Essay 27: Government By Democracy In America (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 5, Subchs. 6-7)
Dec 02, 2024
Essay 26: Government By Democracy In America (Vol. 1, Pt. 2, Ch. 5, Subchs. 4-5)
Nov 28, 2024
Essay 25: Government By Democracy In America (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 5, Subchs. 1-3)
Nov 25, 2024
Essay 24: On Political Association in the United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch.4) of Democracy in America
Nov 21, 2024
Essay 23: Freedom of the Press in the United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 3) of Democracy in America
Nov 18, 2024
Essay 22: Parties In The United States (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 2)
Nov 14, 2024
Essay 21: Why It Can Be Firmly Stated That In The United States It Is The People Who Govern (Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Ch. 1)
Nov 11, 2024
Essay 20: Tocqueville on the Distinctiveness of American Federalism – Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8
Nov 06, 2024
Essay 19: Federalism and Democracy – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 8 Sub Chapters 22
Nov 03, 2024
Essay 18: On The Federal Constitution - Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8, Sub Chapter 21
Oct 31, 2024
Essay 8: The Necessity Of Examining What Happened In Individual States Before Considering The Union As A Whole – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 5 Subchapters 9 to 11 of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Oct 31, 2024
Essay 17: On The Federal Constitution - Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8, Sub Chapter 20
Oct 27, 2024
Essay 16: On The Federal Constitution-Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8, Subchapters 15-19
Oct 24, 2024
Essay 15: On The Federal Constitution - Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8, Sub Chapters 11-14
Oct 21, 2024
Essay 14: Executive Power; a Summary of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Comparison of the U.S. Presidency and the French Monarchy
Oct 17, 2024
Essay 13: On The Federal Constitution - Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 8, Sub Chapters 5-6
Oct 13, 2024
Essay 12: On the Federal Constitution – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 8 Sub Chapters 1-4 of Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
Oct 10, 2024
Essay 11: On Political Judgment in the United States – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 7 of Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
Oct 07, 2024
Essay 10: On Judicial Power in the United States and Its Action on Political Society – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 6 of Democracy in America
Oct 03, 2024
Essay 9: Necessity of Studying What Takes Place in the Particular States before Speaking of the Government of the Union – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 5 Subchapter 12 of Democracy in America
Sep 29, 2024
Essay 8: The Necessity Of Examining What Happened In Individual States Before Considering The Union As A Whole
Sep 26, 2024
Essay 7: Necessity of Studying What Takes Place in the Particular States before Speaking of the Government of the Union – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 5 Subchapters 6 to 8 of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Sep 23, 2024
Essay 6: Necessity of Studying What Takes Place in the Particular States before Speaking of the Government of the Union – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 5 Subchapters 1 to 5
Sep 19, 2024
Essay 5: On The Principle Of The Sovereignty Of The People In America – Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 4 of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Sep 16, 2024