ABSTRACT The article assesses the reception of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America in nineteenth-century Mexico. It explores the impact in two political debates at the time: judicial review (or the writ of amparo) and the question whether Mexico ought to be a central or a federal republic. Tocqueville was instrumental for the participants in those debates. The article examines the nature of these Tocquevillian interventions. Did Democracy in America enlighten the political dilemmas that actors faced at the time? Politicians and thinkers gave more importance to the descriptions of the American institutions that the book provided, and very often overlooked the importance of Tocqueville’s remarks on Mexico’s cultural and social inability to sustain democracy.

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墨西哥的托克维尔

摘要 本文评估了亚历克西斯·德·托克维尔 (Alexis de Tocqueville) 的民主在 19 世纪墨西哥在美国的接受程度。它探讨了当时两场政治辩论的影响：司法审查（或保护令）和墨西哥应该成为中央共和国还是联邦共和国的问题。托克维尔对这些辩论的参与者起到了帮助作用。本文考察了这些托克维尔式干预的性质。美国的民主是否启发了演员当时面临的政治困境？政治家和思想家更加重视该书提供的对美国制度的描述，但往往忽略了托克维尔关于墨西哥在文化和社会上无法维持民主的评论的重要性。