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Comparing Socialism and Liberalism

to public hands which would be the beginning of communism. The Communist Manifesto was a statement on how capitalist society exis...

Overview of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Personal Theories on Democratic Citizenship

to a head. To understand those differences it is instructive to look at writing from the early years of our history. Tocqueville ...

Effective Democracy Developed by Ordinary Americans

so the development of the three branches of government and the distribution of power reduces the chances of too much control falli...

Aspects of Formulating the US Government

majority" (Publius). That is, the largest faction will be able to impose its will on others, whether they are in agreement or not...

Differing View of Democracy

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

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Overcoming Slavery in the 1870s

This paper reviews key historical writings like Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln's campaign speeches and the 1848 Declaratio...

Comparative Analysis of Volumes I and II of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...

Karl Marx, Robert Bellah, and Alexis de Tocqueville on Individualism

In five pages this paper discusses individualism and how it relates to democracy in a comparative analysis of the perspectives of ...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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...

Comparisons and Contrasts Between Herve and Alexis de Tocqueville

et la revolution (The Old Regime and the French Revolution) in 1856 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville died in 1859, wit...

Herbert Marcuse and Alexis de Tocqueville

in certain ways it is a lot more difficult. Equality, he saw, was the key to the democratic enterprise. To de Tocqueville, the ide...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Dahl, and Joseph Schumpeter on Democracy

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

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Freedom According to Smith, Mill, and de Tocqueville, Mill

In a paper consisting of 8 pages these 3 theorists and their concepts of freedom are contrasted and compared with de Tocqueville's...

Hegel And Tocqueville

the Roman Empire. As such, it was a political power. Hegel seems to be suggesting that God can be Spirit only if the Triune God i...

Societal Restrictions as Reflected in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Scarlet Letter

A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...

The Dreyfus Affair by Michael Burns

which is epitomized by the extreme anti-Semitism of Madame de Janville (Gyp), who comments on Zolas supporters as men who are not ...

L'attente de Vladimir sur Godot

continuellement interrompu par Estragon. Il ne finit jamais lhistoire. En dautres termes, il doit continuer ? attendre Godot, o? G...

Politics of Development in 3 Cities

pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...

Man as a Political Animal According to Aristotle

equals, a share of the government- no one will say that this is a democracy" (Aristotle Book 4, Part IV, p.PG). He goes on to expl...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...