Alexis de Tocqueville is a French author and historian. Tocqueville’s text Democracy in America takes place in the 1830s and the French are the main audience. Analyzing Tocqueville’s observations of America is important because it teaches the livelihood of people around the time this novel is written. The lifestyle of the people around this time was consumed with racism and prejudice in the form of slavery. America still has racism and prejudice today‚ but in the form of name-calling and actions
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about how King George III treated them and was intended to convince the rest of the world as to why independence was needed. While the Declaration does not itself form a government‚ it does indicate what the colonists would avoid (abuse or power‚ or tyranny) and pursue (representation in the legislature‚ states’ rights) when they did form governments in the future . The Revolutionary War had already begun at this time and many battles too had already taken place. The Declaration’s purpose was to serve
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Throughout his travels Tocqueville noted that private interest and personal gain motivated the actions of most Americans‚ which in turn cultivated a strong sense of individualism. Tocqueville believed that this individualism would soon "sap the virtue of public life" (395) and create a despotism of selfishness. This growth of despotism would be created by citizens becoming too individualistic‚ and therefore not bothering to fulfill their civic duties or exercise their freedom. Tocqueville feared that the
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period that this situation occurred‚ it was rather common‚ even if it meant discrete! Under many conditions this is not okay‚ and both parties should know where they stand. As a French aristocrat being in America for the first time‚ Alexis de Tocqueville was very much intrigued by the mixture of people‚ whereas where is he originally from is not as mixed as Amercia. The document states “The lot of the Negro is placed on
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American Democracy: A Real Democracy or Hidden Oligarchy? The United States was founded with the intent that class distinction and rigid social structure were the things left behind in the old world. Life‚ liberty‚ and pursuit of happiness were the basis that created the American dream from the very beginning. The state where people face promise of political democracy‚ wide range of civil liberties‚ opportunity for economic prosperity‚ and equality between each and every citizen. “Government
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Chp 9 Identifications Alexis de Tocqueville and changes in America ● In 1813‚ Tocqueville and Beaumont‚ 2 young French aristocrats on a mission to find out more about the American republic‚ found themselves stuck in Memphis‚ Tennessee because of the frozen Ohio River en route to New Orleans. ● On Christmas‚ the Frenchmen along with a federal agent accompanying relocating Choctaw Natives persuaded the captain to turn the boat. ● Tocqueville wrote about the dispirited Natives
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While de Tocqueville warns of the threat of egotism‚ individualism‚ and despotism in democratic America‚ he counters these threats with an explanation of how America actively combats these potential vices. The three threats in democracy have greater potential to flourish as American equality becomes more coveted and widespread. In contrast with aristocratic nations‚ “democracy make[s] every man forget his ancestors…[and it] hides his contemporaries from him” (227). De Tocqueville continues to assert
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Removal Act: Forced Relocation. Minneapolis: Compass Point‚ 2007. Print. 11. "The Museum of the Cherokee Indian." The Museum of the Cherokee Indian N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2012. <http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/html/collections_tot.html>. 12. Tocqueville‚ Alexis De‚ and J. P. Mayer. Democracy in America. Garden City‚ NY: Doubleday‚ 1969. Print. 2 December 2012.
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the meaning or significance of things that are tangible such as the flag‚ national monuments or civics and political events. It also enables one to give the meaning or significance of intangibles‚ such as ideals or concepts including patriotism‚ majority and minority rights‚ civil society‚ and constitutionalism. Civic disposition’s refers to the traits of private and public character essential to maintenance and improvement of constitutional democracy.
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“Thus the number of men raised in each department ought to be proportional to its resources…but we see that this relationship is subject to very wide variations” (de Tocqueville‚ 252) This is clear cut evidence of a certain bias towards the upper class in government system. Although the Third Estate made up around 98% of the population of France at that time‚ they had the same amount of representatives as each of the First
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