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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...

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

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

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

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...

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

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

Burkes criticisms (Leemhuis, 2003). The "Rights of Men" series was an analysis of the historical basis for the roots of European ...

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

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

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

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true founder of civil society." (from Discours surlOrigine et le Fondement delIn?galit? Parmi les Hommes, 1754). General speaking...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

on Edmund Burkes Philosophy, 2002). * The traditions therefore which evolve from the life of a nation have a real purpose and usef...

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

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

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

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

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

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

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

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

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

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

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...