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US
/ˈtoʊkvɪɫ/
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NOUN
- French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859)
How To Use Tocqueville In A Sentence
- Montesquieu, Smith and Tocqueville were forced to theorize about the antiquity of the institutions and culture which underlay modernity and its origins in England.
- We can take as one starting point Tocqueville's conception of democracy, which I have already briefly sketched in the Introduction.
- I submit the following translation of Tocqueville's final hortatory sentence/paragraph of his masterpiece not as an invidious comparison but as an illustration of differing approaches to the difficult task of translation.
- Tocqueville notes that with effort he - and we - can enter this peasant's mentality.
- Beyond this general observation, Tocqueville notes important changes in the mentality of the middle classes and the nobility.
- Citizen de Tocqueville: There, gentlemen, is Baboeuf's program.
- Tocqueville's arguments for the strict separation of church and state are rooted in his concern that if religious dogma is fused with secular power, it will lose both its spillover and compensatory effects.
- While the dissolution of aristocratic corporate bodies may be a cost to society, in that bulwarks against despotism are eroded, Tocqueville believes that on balance the individual gains.
- As Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago, in America, nearly all important issues ultimately become judicial questions.
- Indeed, just as Tocqueville had to coin the term individualism to describe the unique way he observed Americans relating to one another in society, he also invented a concept that he called "the principle of interest rightly understood" to describe Americans 'moral code. The Freedom Fighter's Journal