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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...

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

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

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...

In a paper that contains three pages the precarious balance between two extremes is discussed within the context of the Federalist...

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

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

In seven pages this paper examines political and economic freedom in a consideration of the perspectives of Benjamin Franklin, Ale...

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

both a person who is unique in his own right and a member of society. It seems that individualism as a concept...

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...

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

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

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

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

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

In five pages this paper speculates on how Tocqueville's Democracy in America may have been reacted to by Emerson. Two sources ar...

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

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

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

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...

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

the 1920s" (Zaretsky, 2004, p. 39). Thanks to Lincolns brand of politics, America was well on its way to achieving superpower sta...

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 forty eight pages this paper examines individualism and the American family through an application of theories by Karl Marx, Em...

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

In six pages this paper focuses on each chapter of the text's second half in terms of its relationship to the entire book. One so...

ruled by others, even those who do not have their best interests at heart (Kant, 1970). Essentially, he contends that this situat...