Alexis de Tocqueville DE MOC R AC Y I N A M E R ICA Historical-Critical Edition of De la democratie en Amerique ´ ´ s4s4s4s4s4 Edited by Eduardo Nolla Translated from the French by James T. Schleifer a bilingual french-english edition volume 1 Indianapolis This book is published by Liberty Fund‚ Inc.‚ a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif
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Bibliography: De Tocqueville‚ Alexis. Democracy in America‚ Trans. by Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. London: Folio Society‚ 2002. Machiavelli‚ Niccolo and Donno‚ Daniel. The Prince. New York: Bantam‚ 1984. Mill‚ John Stuart. Utilitarianism and the 1868 Speech on Capital
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Federalist 51- James Madison published Federalist 51 in order to explain how the structure of the United States government protects against tyranny. Federalist 51 is interesting because it explains how the proposed U.S. government operates in terms of dualities. First‚ Madison explains how the structure of the U.S. government allows for mutual branches. By this he means that the relationship
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System The Founders of our nation understood that no idea was more central to our Bill of Rights -- indeed‚ to government of the people‚ by the people‚ and for the people -- than the citizen jury. It was cherished not only as a bulwark against tyranny but also as an essential means of educating Americans in the habits and duties of citizenship. By enacting the Fifth‚ Sixth‚ and Seventh Amendments to the Constitution‚ the Framers sought to install the right to trial by jury as a cornerstone of a
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De la Démocratie en Amérique – Tocqueville The ideal of a democracy‚ like the one developed by the Americans since 1776‚ lies in the fact that Men were born equals. This principle of equality has been the foundation of Tocqueville’s thought. All along this book‚ we can notice that the causes that enable the democratic state of America to be‚ lies on the particular situation of this country. Indeed‚ America lives under a pure democracy‚ without any aristocratic inheritance or revolutionary passions
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that the nation’s "elites" must also be wise and benign since they will often be the ones who lead the nation. Just as Plato concluded 2000 years ago‚ the elites must place the interests of the people and state first‚ or you slide down a path of tyranny and social unrest. Mexico is a good example of a state where the elites (descendants of an exploitive colonial class) are out for their own interests at the expense of the "swinish masses‚" to quote Jefferson. This leads to revolution and economic
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To what extent are democracy and dictatorship different? In order to answer this question we must first examine the generic basis of both democracy and dictatorship separately. The term democracy originates from the Greeks‚ and is defined as “rule of the people” coming from the words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power). It was coined around 400 BCE‚ to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states‚ notably Athens. Commonly‚ two forms of democracy are recognised‚ these being
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interpretation‚ although the flaw seems obvious in his argument‚ as surely this would only give that of the nobility and the bourgeoisies more reasons to revolt against the Old Order in order to create better financial opportunities themselves. Tocqueville recognises the anti government confrontations of 1787-1789 was due to hatred of " the members of the upper class” and agrees that they “... had more means to resist the
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Alexis de Tocqueville?s novel Democracy in America touched on many topics having to do with democracy‚ not in the United States‚ but also in his home of France‚ as well as England. His views were established during his stay in the United States. Tocqueville made a number of references about the political activity in the United States. He did this ranging from the courts to the executive branch. Henry David Thoreau touched on many of the same topics as Tocqueville. They both believe in the motto of
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suggests that the state is a mechanism through which collective goals are achieved thus expanding state power (Dewey‚2005). The concentration of power proved to be the liberals fear‚ since they believed that government is always bound to become a tyranny against the individual because the greater concentration of power the greater room for rulers self-interest thus the greater corruption. Hence the development of the ideology of liberalism which‚ as stated above‚ is “ a political arrangement that
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