Alexis de Tocqueville Dol

1)Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America in which five key components of American freedom were outlined and identified.

• T

• F

When citizens can only meet in public for certain purposes, they regard such meetings as a strange proceeding of rare occurrence, and they rarely think at all about it. When they are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon public association as the universal, or in a manner the sole, means which men can employ to accomplish the different purposes they may have in view.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840

• Liberty

• Populism

• Laissez-faire

• Egalitarianism

3.) Economic freedom, such as opening a business or buying what you want, would be most associated with

• liberty

• individualism

• egalitarianism

• populism

"Commerce makes men independent of each another, gives quite another idea of their personal value, persuades them to manage their own affairs, and teaches them to be successful...

No country in the world has a more lively or concerned feeling for property than the United States and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward those doctrines which threaten to impair in any way at all the manner in which property is owned."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

• social justice

• individualism

• egalitarianism

• laissez-faire

A police officer pulls you over for racing Mr. Mongiello on 75. Both  you and Mr. Mongiello were going 130 mph. You both received tickets for $250. This would be an example of ____________________.

• Egalitarianism

• Laissez-faire

• Individualism

• Populism