Tocqueville

How To Use Tocqueville In A Sentence

• The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
• At the beginning of this chapter I suggested that Tocqueville saw America's particular and irreproducible circumstances as both crucial and beside the point.
• Tocqueville wrote in the 1830s of the inevitability of democracy, but warned against ‘the dangers of a tyranny of the majority’.
• America, as Tocqueville famously concluded, is a nation of joiners.
• Through all of these evaluations, assessments and hagiographies, commentators sometimes lose sight of the fact that Tocqueville was, by training and choice, an attorney, and what is more, a civil law trained attorney, a magistrate, a member of the Legislative Assembly, a drafter of the Constitution of France's Second Republic and a member of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's Cabinet. Archive 2008-02-01
• Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, in the 1830s, that the great constitutive power of the American republic was its town councils and rural communities, in which small assemblies of citizens took counsel for their immediate good.
• But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
• During those early years of our national experiment with self-government, Tocqueville saw this principle as enjoying "universal acceptance" in America. James Bacchus: Can We Still See and Serve Our True National Self-Interest?
• Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume study De la democratie en Amerique, published in 1835 and 1840, made no mention of balloting procedures, despite providing an otherwise comprehensive examination of American political culture and the moeurs that sustained it.
• J'en doute, je vous l'avouerai, que l'aristocratie anglaise s'en trouve bien, et quoique A B ait entonné l'autre jour une véritable hymne en l'honneur de celle ci, je ne crois pas que ce qui passe soit de nature à rendre ces chances plus grandes dans l'avenir '-- _A de Tocqueville_. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2