Day 4 - Tocqueville DOL

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

• True

• False

Which value is best reflected in this excerpt?

"When [citizens] are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon public association as the universal means which men can employ to accomplish the different purposes they may have in view."

-Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, 1840

• Liberty

• Populism

• Laissez-Faire

• Egalitarianism

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

• Liberty

• Laissez-Faire

• Egalitarianism

• Populism

Which value important to America’s success as a constitutional republic is best illustrated in this excerpt?

"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..."

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

• Social Justice

• Populism

• Laissez-Faire

• Egalitarianism

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

• Egalitarianism

• Laissez-Faire

• Liberty

• Individualism