Alexis De Tocqueville was a French aristocrat was a well-educated, political thinker, and historian, who came to America to study the prisons and jails. He arrived in America with longtime friend Gustave de Beaumont, in May of 1831 and stayed about 9 months. Upon his return home he published his travels and experiences in America, in his book Democracy in America. He believed in Democracy and he envisioned France as a Democracy. Alexis visit to America was during a time of growth and advancement, but many aspects he witnessed were negative. Andrew Jackson was president during this time, and he was a bigot and disliked any humans who were not white skinned. The French didn’t have slavery, and the French had a very close connection to Native Americans because of their relations of the past. He experienced slavery during his visit down south, and he also witnessed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. For this reason he …show more content…
The Federal Judiciary is an essential part of a democracy. He also believed the lower house of government were vulgar. Alexis liked the local governments here in America, like New England. He believed the Juries were fundamental to a democracy. The lawyers were a type of Aristocrat and he held them on a different scale. He was impressed with our system of Justice of the Peace. The local government acts as a school for democracy, and makes people join offices. Alexis believed that democracy trickles up rather than down. Freedom of Press is important to a democracy, but he thought if it becomes too powerful it can become a threat to democracy. The cure for this is to have a large amount of press to make sure it don’t become too powerful. Political parties were evil, but those parties from the beginning were good because their interests were in property. Whereas politicians during his visit only cared about victory not
Henri Membertou Henri Membertou was born around 1510 close to what is modern day Annapolis Royal and passed away so September 11 1611. He was the leader of the Mi’kmaq First Nations band which was located near Port Royal and was the first native to be baptized on 18 September 1611 at Annapolis Royal. Before he was grand chief of the Mi’kmaq tribe he was the district chief of Kespukwitk the area where the French colonists first landed. As well as being the district chief he was also the spiritual leader of his tribe and was believed to have healing and prophesy powers.
Jean baptiste Bingham painter was born September, 5 1638, in France. So many People from France know Bingham painter by his amazing good art. Jean baptiste Bingham, painter spoke many languages such as French, a little Indian and other types of languages. Jean baptiste was one of the 3rd men 's in France that was well known. He was also a really famous men.
This may come from slightly from a place of defense for Tocqueville as he is part of the aristocrat class in France. Tocqueville isn’t wrong completely though as many of the people of the time were largely very uneducated about the world and to expect them to be able to understand situations around the world is asking too much of them. Yet this largely not their fault as much of them did not have access to education. Tocqueville also notices in the United States that many people don’t look up to the wealthy or a king anymore but still look up to people who appear virtuous to them.
The Oligarch admits that a democracy a type of government which is much better suited to deal with the needs of a naval power. In his own words “…it is only just that the poorer classes and the common people of Athens …seeing that it is the people who man the fleet, and have brought the city her power.” (The Old Oligarch, 1.2). While the more heavily armored infantry would still be comprised of higher status men who could afford the proper armor, anyone could help to man a ship; as men from the lower classes became more involved in defending their city they would have wanted to be more fairy represented in their government. Democracy would have appeased the men who manned the ships, allowing Athens to have a large and effective navy, making them the leading maritime power in the Aegean.
Like many people Alexis De Tocqueville set out to do something while accomplishing something else. Tocqueville was born in France in 1805 to an aristocratic family with connections to both the church and the monarchy. He then grew to have a successful academic career. Tocqueville then was sent to America in 1831 by the French government to study the American penal system. While doing his work in America with his colleague Gustavo de Beaumont studying the American prison system by a 9-month journey through eastern America Tocqueville became very interested in American society and the political system as a whole.
Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman, ventured through America during Andrew Jackson's presidency. In the first volume of his work, Democracy in America, Tocqueville provides a clear understanding of the nature of modern democracy. In the work that he published about the United States after his adventuring, Tocqueville describes the attributes of which the United States possessed which classified a distinct, coming-to-be more modernized form of democracy in the early nineteenth century. In that time period, beginning with Andrew Jackson's presidency, rapid changes occurred in many different concepts which shaped and formed the nation into newer forms that were modified as time progressed and different ideas and plans were passed around throughout
Our understanding of democracy has changed significantly since the ancient Greeks first practiced it. One of the reasons our understanding has changed is the way human nature has evolved since the time of the ancient Greeks. If we compare the way democracy has changed, we see that the democracy that we enjoy as Americans was not the same democracy that was practiced in ancient Greek. In this paper, I will attempt to describe the way our understanding of democracy has changed. If we read Sartori, he describes Greek democracy as a direct democracy and American democracy as a representative democracy, but explains that the ruler and the ruled were not the same in terms of Greek democracy.
This passage is short and yet very telling of the way Ancient Greeks may have understood proper government and democracy to be. As the cultural cradle of Western civilization, the Greeks were often considered to be among the early creators of civil order and arts. With this came the concepts of justice and fairness, and the idea of a social contract of sorts. Justice is also one of the prominent themes highlighted in The Odyssey, and complements the previous theory of a judicial system or a ruling structure. Homeric literature was so widespread and popular, it went so far as to be deemed wholly troublesome by philosopher Plato.
It is not for the good of the Negroes, but for that of the whites, that measures are taken to abolish slavery in the United States.” One point in time American citizens were definitely wrong for taking advantage of the African Americans and I am glad that Tocqueville has stated his point on it. I believe we were too selfish and greedy and the whites were thinking too much about becoming rich that we did not think anything bad about slavery at the time. Eventually the north fought the south (Civil War) to abolish slavery and give the actual meaning of equal opportunity to every person in the United States in which was the moral thing to do. In conclusion Tocqueville has discussed the equality and liberalism as he adventured through America.
One of the largest differences between the Dikasteria and our judiciary system is that Athens had no police. Anytime a citizen committed a crime the demos, or politically active citizens, would bring said person to the Dikasteria for a trial. In current world affairs, it would be impossible to just let people go word against word, or to just bring someone in for a crime just because they felt like it. Another contrasting trait of the Dikasteria is that when a person was put on trial, they were to defend themselves. In current American democracy if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed to you, attorneys did not exist in ancient
Democracy is often loudly declared to be the correct form of government, but the very principles that it is built from can have tendencies towards less laudable consequences. As Tocqueville examined democracy in America, he attempted to discover the origin of democratic principles and the potential for them to turn sour over time. Such a line of questioning is important to the long-term stability of the democratic system, and Tocqueville discusses many tendencies in democracy that he believes lead towards a degradation of society. He holds that essential characteristics of the democratic character such as equality, liberty, and individualism can also result issues such as majority tyranny, a herd mentality, low asperations, and despotism. He thought that these issues could arise in democracy over time if sufficient measures were not taken against them, and it is worthwhile to consider that what he discovered could someday happen might be already taking
He held that upright life is the only life worth living. To him, justice was a matter of knowledge and hence, a truth aspect. Meanwhile, he honored and acknowledged his duty to obey the Laws of the state. From Socrates' perspective, Laws are absolute.
Failure during the Peloponnesian War caused Greeks to question democracy and traditional Greek values. Plato disagreed with the way the state was run, especially after Athens’ loss at war. He discusses the meaning of justice and outlines how the ideal state should be governed in The Republic. He believes that the ideal state should be governed by a class of guardian rulers, who were trained as philosopher-kings. These rulers are the only members of society who could understand the Form of the Good and would be able to rule justly and logically.
According to Socrates perspective, the democracy of Athens was corrupt and even though they courts were made in such a way that everyone was judged fairly, it wasn’t such because there were no rules or principles set forth. When a person was brought to court in the Athenian court and the person spoke against the jurors or offended them, he or she could be prosecuted based on that. In summary, judgment was passed based on emotion rather than on justice. In the Apology, Socrates stated, “my present request seems a just one, for you to pay no attention to my manner of speech-
He came to America to study democracy. and he landed on our shores as it was finally starting to take root. Page 10 of the book says, “And the roaring mobs that pushed and fought their way into Andrew Jackson’s inaugural reception, that knocked over punch bowls, smashed glasses, and trod in muddy boots on White House tables and chairs, made it abundantly clear that at long last equality had become the hallmark of American life.” This chaos had to have been an appalling sight to a man that had been raised a member of the French aristocracy and was used to the minority having all of the power and control. What he found here was majority rule, and at the time we seemed to think it was perfect.