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In five pages this paper examines Plato and de Tocqueville's views regarding democracy in a contrast and comparison of what democr...

In six pages the history of ideas is examined within the context of Democracy in America in an evaluation of de Tocqueville's argu...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the democracy perspectives of Cyril Lionel Robert James and Alexis de Tocqueville...

In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

restless even though prosperous is bold. His work is again just as relevant today as it was at the time it was written. In fact, R...

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

In six pages this paper relates Bellah's text to Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville in terms of charting the evolutiona...

In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...

replete with meaning, should be required (Smidt 176). That statement is rather strong but Tocqueville did not mean that the govern...

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much...

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

more advanced in containing the criminal element than other states at the time. If not, why would the pair go to America to study ...

The credence of de Tocqueville's observation, 'Two tendencies in fact result from equality; the one first leads men directly to in...

change to the ethnic and cultural make-up of the United States. He also didnt foresee the growth of major cities, or the changes t...

In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...

of the lower classes in civilized countries. This, then, is one of the central themes to Volume one, which is the nature of equali...

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

the 1920s" (Zaretsky, 2004, p. 39). Thanks to Lincolns brand of politics, America was well on its way to achieving superpower sta...

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

In five pages this paper speculates on how Tocqueville's Democracy in America may have been reacted to by Emerson. Two sources ar...