Democracy in Colonial America which was a work in progress‚ had both democratic and undemocratic features. When colonist got to America‚ they had to make their own laws. They immigrated to America to get away from England’s laws. Not all of the new laws were great‚ they needed to make them better but never made laws‚ so didn’t know how to make them where it benefited everyone. One democratic feature is the rule of law. In a rule of law‚ no one is above the law. From document 3 “The Fundamental Orders
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In ‘Democracy in America’‚ Alexis De Tocqueville analyses democracy‚ seen as egalitarian social conditions. While he acknowledges its merits in guaranteeing the economic and political stability of nations‚ he also warns that democratic systems have the potential to bring about various social handicaps‚ namely ‘individualism’ and ‘democratic nepotism’ - unless intermediate institutions are introduced. Marx‚ on the hand‚ dismisses the idea that politics are at the heart of modern society’s issues
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In “Democracy in America‚” Alexis de Tocqueville argues that the biggest danger of democracy is the feeling of‚ what he coins‚ “Individualism.” Tocqueville states when introducing the concept of individualism that it is “of democratic origin” and may spread with the “same ratio as the equality of conditions” (Volume 2; Part 2; Ch 2.). His primary reason for this is that in an equal society men are no longer attached to other men. He compares it to an aristocracy‚ where every man is a link in a
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1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800 1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt
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In Alexis de Tocqueville’s work‚ Democracy In America‚ Tocqueville spoke on the dangers of censorship in a democracy. "First you bring writers before juries; but the juries acquit‚ and what had been the opinion of only an isolated man becomes that of the country ... You hand the authors over to permanent magistrates‚ but judges
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Cities. Doctors and Nurses was that after 1870 doctors started to use things like like anaesthetic and antibiotics to stop diseases caused by bacteria but they didnt know that then‚ and also so they die from diseases. Magic Midwives‚ which was after 1750 midwives started caring for patients more to stop illnesses until they were better‚ and and by that time some rich hospitals had also got maternaty bedsso pregnant women and children didnt have to lie on the floor while the they were in labour. Jenners
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and Americas. Between 1450 and 1750‚ note major developments‚ exchanges‚ shifts of power‚ demographic changes. Through out time‚ different civilizations undergo changes as they mature and grow. America and Africa were regions where changes aroused‚ and these changes can be explained by the globalization of commerce of the world. These changes can be for the better or for the worse‚ but they ultimately lead to innovation and new ideas. Demographic changes occurred in America‚ which
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Insights on De Tocqueville’s Democracy In America It has been said that a French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville‚ who visited the United States in the 1830’s‚ "understood us" in a way that few observers (foreign and domestic) have. Furthermore‚ Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is often cited by present-day critics because so many of the observations in it seem extraordinarily suitable even more than one hundred and fifty years later. Alexis de Tocqueville was born 1805 into a minor noble
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America is a Democratic-Republic‚ not a Democracy. If we had a true Democracy‚ we the people would vote on every issue. Issues such as every law and every bill. Instead we have a group of people called leaders‚ who represent America and make those decisions. Then we the people just should abide by those laws and bills that we had no say in. If we had a true democracy‚ nothing would ever get done because getting 200 million people on the polls on a weekly‚ or daily basis would cost a lot of money
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Upon the founding of America‚ a great deal of pressure was placed onto the Founding Fathers to create a system in which the central government will not acquire too much power and the citizens will be well represented. A representative democracy was‚ overall‚ a more effective answer to the question of how to govern the new country rather than a direct democracy after seeing the effects that the Articles of Confederation created when too much of the power of the government was given to the people
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