In his
Memories of the Revolution of 1848
,
Tocqueville
, when analyzing its causes, places instead of privilege the king himself, Luis Felipe, of whom he says he had imagined that, to keep the crown, it was enough for him to
conform to the letter of the law even violating its spirit
, and that as long as it remained within the limits of the Magna Carta, the nation would not overflow them.
Perverting the spirit of the Constitution without changing its letter and setting the country's vices against each other, that was the idea, the utmost
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