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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In five pages de Tocqueville's notion that the black slave is unaware of his status is disproved with the Narrative of the Life of...

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