Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville once stated that “Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” In the bitingly satirical novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, a motley crew of farm beasts free themselves from the oppressive constraints of their owner, Mr. Jones in order to create for themselves a fair and equal form of government which can be summed up under

After an agricultural revolution, England was on track for an Industrial Revolution. Out of the many industries in Britain, the Textile industry led to the prosperity of the nation. Now a major city in Britain, Manchester was as rich in industrial culture back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century as it is now. Britain being a supreme power in world trade led to them having an abundance of resources such as wool and coal. With the first mechanical cotton mill being built in 1780, Manchester led

The strongest barrier is wealth/property/class, then race, and then gender. To fully have equality in a society, all those barriers need to be broken, mostly in order. In Democracy In America (1831) by Alexis De Tocqueville, states that “...it was soon found that the soil of America was entirely opposed to a territorial aristocracy...Land is the basis of an aristocracy...for it is not by privileges alone, nor by birth, but by landed property handed down from generation

Feudalism was a very important aspect in developing the political organization in medieval England. It was one of dominant governments used by the nobles. Feudalism was when one of the king’s noblemen would give land to a man known as a fief and give the fief people to work the land for him. These people are known as serfs. The fief would then protect the serfs from being attacked as long, as long as the serfs worked the land to provide an income for the fief. If the fief accepted the nobles

An Equally Faulted Inequality With the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 came more than solely the independence stated in the “legal” document. The Declaration brought about a component of equality unanticipated by any signer or drafter that would soon shape the future and the mindset of many citizens. This sensation of equality spread rapidly through the country and could be seen in different time periods throughout American history where a group of people realized the government’s

people, hence from its founding days it had been based on the fact of classless society of equals (Angus 55), where it focused on getting rid of such culture that was forced upon by the United Kingdom. A famous sociologist by the name of Alexis Tocqueville, at that time described the US as the most democratic nation in the world. But that soon has changed today in modern times, where there is a greater perceptible of classes in the country, only because of vast wealth accumulation by the higher class

group from having undue discretion when it came to electing the most powerful person in government. Of these competing ideas, two are prominently reflected in the Electoral College. The first is democracy, an idea largely advanced by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. Democracy, loosely defined as the direct representation of people in government, seems the most logical way to conduct an election. The second is federalism. Understanding how this could become problematic, the founders

and move up the ranks within their industry. Newly oppressive religious influence in the workplace contributed to increased levels of expected morality and privacy, contributing to the further division of society on starker class lines. Alexis de Tocqueville went so far as to assert that religion was an order-inducing tactic used by

President Obama loves to talk about “your fair share,” but have you ever heard him give a specific definition of what “your fair share” actually is? I’d like to know because it sounds so good. Is it the same amount as everyone else? Is it more than what your parents had? In a free society, is equal income for all even desirable or attainable? Can a phrase like “fair share” require any sacrifice from me? When we combine our “fair share” with the idea of “social justice” we might just have a cause

In American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Jon Meacham explores the dynamic relationship between religion and government in America in the hope that contemporary America can learn from the past. The period covered by the book spans from 1620 until Reagan’s presidency in the late 1980s. However, Meacham focuses on the Founding Fathers stances and their continued impact on American politics. More specifically, the book details the conflict over the separation of private