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Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 5
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What is the number of copies of Democracy in America sold exclusively to college students?
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Devout to his lord even though there is no natural interest in their fate
Who were the serfs?
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The two countries compared in chapter two.
What are England and America?
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The social condition of a nation’s people
What affects the laws and legislature of a nation?
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They treat their servants with a stiffness and imperiousness.
Who are the English?
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The TV special created about Tocqueville's Book
What is American Veritigo?
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1675
When did the lower classes in Brittany revolt at the imposition of a new tax?
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Because they are both from America.
What is the reason two Americans will be friends in a foreign country?
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The social condition of America
What is Democracy to Americas?
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They treat their servants with a degree of familiarity or of politeness.
Who were the French?
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The event about which most scholars cite Democracy in America
What is 9/11?
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Killed and quarterd, each limb was but in a corner of the town.
What was the punishment for a lower class revolt?
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The difference between America and England.
What is the existence of aristocracies?
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Men are seen more equal in their strength than in any other country.
What is the phenomenon exhibited in America’s social state?
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Men of noble and vigorous minds in the service of the great, would not feel the servitude they bore.
What was sometimes found in Aristocratic nations?
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The reason Tocqueville came to America.
What is the study of American prisons and penitentiaries?
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When men rarely sacrifice themselves for one another; but they display general compassion for the members of the human race
When/What were the democratic ages?
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The effect of Democracy
What is placing people's habitual intercourse upon an easier footing?
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To remove or grant every citizen the same rights
What are the two ways to establish equality in the political world?
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One has no contact to their servants, but stand firmly by one another. The other is close to their servants, but they keep a distance in their minds.
What is a big difference in aristocratic and democratic slavery?
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The dominant idea of the book.
What is the irresistible future that is democracy?
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A barbarian did not belong to the same human race as a Roman.
What did Cicero believe in terms of Roman integrity?
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The cause of the reserve of the English
What is the constitution of England?
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Losing the sovereignty of the people
What is the risk of being lead by an absolute power?
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At any moment a servant may become a master and he aspires to rise to that condition.
Why in the servant no different from the master in a democracy?