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Chapter Summary: Daily use which the Anglo-Americans make of the right of association-Three kinds of political associations-In what manner the Americans apply the representative system to associations-Dangers resulting to the State-Great Convention of 1831 relative to the Tariff-Legislative character of this Convention-Why the unlimited exercise of the right of association is less dangerous in the United States than elsewhere-Why it may be looked upon as necessary-Utility of associations in a democratic people.
In no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used, or more unsparingly applied to a multitude of different objects, than in America. Besides the permanent associations which are established by law under the names of townships, cities, and counties, a vast number of others are formed and maintained by the agency of private individuals.