De Toqueville ch1,2
Consider the following in today’s reading:
What is the role of inheritance in American Democracy according to de Toqueville?
What is the relationship, for de Toqueville, between economic meritocracy and political equality as a precondition for true democracy?
What is the need/role of universal education in a democracy?
Where, in the text, does de Toqueville show his concern with balancing equality and liberty?
Why does de Toqueville think local communities are so important to democracy? How do they promote stability/ inoculate a society against turmoil?
What is the effect of participation in local governments for the people? How does this involvement allow for liberty without undermining equality?
Explain de Toqueville’s understanding of the relationship between state or federal law/mandates and local/municipal governments.
Explain what de Toqueville thinks of American central/decentralization of government.
On page 63, is de Toqueville talking about government transparence? Why?
What does de Toqueville think is distinctive about the American Federal constitution?
What are manners to de Toqueville? What is their function in a democracy?
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. C. Wright Mills
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