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

In eight pages basic concepts are first defined before an individualism defense is offered with the incorporation of such authors ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

(not many women were in places of ruling in those days), the people who controlled the production of product and the money made. T...

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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