Essays Tagged: "Tocqueville"
What is equality of conditions according to Tocqueville?
eelings, suggests customs, and modifies whatever it does not create." (p. 9) Clearly, to understand Tocqueville, one must understand what he means by equality of conditions. These conditions are commo ... ct freedom and equality. The result was more equality. This equality manifests itself, according to Tocqueville in a society where generations face greater and greater equality.As Tocqueville writes A ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
"A Shopkeeper's Millennium", by Paul. E. Johnson. A brief synopsis and summary of the book.
n why the revivals even took place. Johnson's theories that present themselves in the book contract Tocqueville's and other beliefs that revivals were society's anecdote to individualism. To put it mo ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Free Political Associations in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America".
Alexis de Tocqueville holds political associations, an important part of any political party, responsible for ... econd Amendment rights through legislation-reform is a direct reflection from Democracy in America. Tocqueville's idea that they do not necessarily have Constitutional rights to pass laws, "...but the ... te in advance the one that should exist." is a trademark of the National Rifle Association (p. 182).Tocqueville also formulates that, despite the fact that associations like the National Rifle Associa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Rhetorical Strategies of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Ever since he was born, Tocqueville had been exposed to politics and government. His father was the mayor of Verneuil, which ... n exposed to politics and government. His father was the mayor of Verneuil, which was where much of Tocqueville's childhood was spent. As he grew up he took courses in law, which eventually aided him ... him in writing Democracy in America. While on official business to view the American penal system, Tocqueville got his first taste of democracy. When the twenty eight year old de Tocqueville returned ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Tocqueville and democracy
Tocqueville is best known for "Democracy in America" (1835-40), which was a perceptive analysis of t ... which was a perceptive analysis of the U.S. political and social system in the early 19th century. Tocqueville's study analysed the vitality, the excesses and the potential future of American democra ... of American democratic practices; it is also perhaps the best-known concept of democratic despotism Tocqueville introduced in his work (Schleifer, 1980; Zetterbaum, 1967). Tyranny of majority, as view ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
DeTocqueville and Mill, and the tyranny of the majority
as viewed somewhat indifferently by many of the world's prominent political philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill existed among those most apprehensive of the democratic experiment. ... ential threat to the individual freedoms of man, through a much feared 'tyranny of the majority'.De Tocqueville and Mill both cite the possible oppression of minority groups as a significant drawback ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
What was going on in America between 1810-1830. What might America look like through the eyes of a foreinger like Alexis Tocqueville?
if it's make up is a majority of miserable people.In 1831 an aristocratic Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States to study the U.S. prison systems. For the nine months he was i ... nd his experience in America led him to make some pretty accurate assumptions in his book.Alexis de Tocqueville had a very sad impression of the Indians. He was sad for what they had already become an ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Tocqueville - "Democracy In America"
Tocqueville's "Democracy In America" is an examination of the United State's form of democracy. His ... ver it pleases; and yet I have asserted that all authority originates in the will of the majority" (Tocqueville, page 547). This in itself is a contradiction, and illustrates very clearly his overall ... s, exist even to this day.Majoritarian rule is clearly an incorrect fragmentation of democracy, and Tocqueville furthers the ideas of past theorists we have studied in the idea that if man can abuse p ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Alexis De Tocqueville's Thoughts On Early 19th Century America
When Alexis de Tocqueville came to America, he observed many things about American society and government. Overall, ... erica in two volumes of work. These two volumes were compiled into a book, Democracy in America. De Tocqueville was amazed at how unrestricted American society was for European-American men. As a Fren ... mazed at how unrestricted American society was for European-American men. As a Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville came from a society with rigid social norms. So when he witnessed life in America, where ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Liberal Democratic State: The End of History or simply another epoch?
e symbiotic, when several prominent thinkers have in fact challenged that very assumption.Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy is America (1835-1840) is a somewhat ambivalent exploration of the youn ... at ambivalent exploration of the young republic in the early nineteenth century; ambivalent because Tocqueville found aspects of American democracy to be both commendable and troubling, furthermore he ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Individualism And Its Place In Society
Society In their literary journeys to describe a great society, both John Stuart Mill and Alexis De Tocqueville encounter the dilemma of how to engage the people of a nation so that they take an activ ... how does a government keep its citizens locked in to the events occurring around them, Mill and De Tocqueville both offer different answers. De Tocqueville proposes the very American idea that free i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Individualism And Its Place In Society
In their literary journeys to describe a great society, both John Stuart Mill and Alexis De Tocqueville encounter the dilemma of how to engage the people of a nation so that they take an activ ... how does a government keep its citizens locked in to the events occurring around them, Mill and De Tocqueville both offer different answers. De Tocqueville proposes the very American idea that free i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy