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    Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊkvɪl/ TO(H)K-vil, French: [alɛksi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) was a Washington, D.C. based think tank. AdTI was named after the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville. Founded...
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  • The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international prize for political literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding...
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  • social frustration grows more quickly. The effect is based on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on the French Revolution and later reforms in Europe...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Award may refer to a number of awards named after the prominent Frenchman who wrote Democracy in America. The current known...
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  • The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour was a series of programs produced by C-SPAN in 1997 and 1998 that followed the path taken by Alexis de Tocqueville and...
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    classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic...
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  • Look up Tocqueville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French political thinker and historian. Tocqueville may also...
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  • of the term "tyranny of the majority" is commonly attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, who used it in his book Democracy in America. It appears in Part...
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  • your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Historian Alexis de Tocqueville made predictions in 1840 concerning perpetual war in democratic...
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    The Old Regime and the Revolution (category Works by Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution...
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    American exceptionalism (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    historian Alexis de Tocqueville, most notably in his comparison of the United States with Great Britain and his native France. Tocqueville was the first...
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  • Soft despotism (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might...
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    reformer, and travel companion to the famed philosopher and politician Alexis de Tocqueville. While he was very successful in his lifetime, he is often overlooked...
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    A History. Michelet, Jules (1847–1856). Histoire de la Révolution française. Tocqueville, Alexis de (1856). L'Ancien régime et la révolution. Lévy. Usually...
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  • Prominent members included Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot and Alexis de Tocqueville. The party won an absolute majority in the 1849 general election...
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  • 1837 The Martyr Age of the United States, 1839 Alexis de Tocqueville (France, 1805–1859) Some literature: De La Démocratie en Amérique, 1831–1840 (Democracy...
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  • Soft tyranny (category Alexis de Tocqueville)
    Soft tyranny is an idea first developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work titled Democracy in America. It is described as the individualist preference...
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  • DeMint was paid $1 million annually, making him the highest paid think tank president in Washington, D.C. at the time. Some pundits predicted that DeMint...
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  • cut off access to medical equipment used in surgical abortions to create a de facto national abortion ban. For his part, Trump has not committed to a federal...
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  • professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and slavery and his published work Econocide. Seymour Drescher has...
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    the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the "road to servitude". Initially written as a response to the...
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    relationship[citation needed] Tocqueville Society: many United Ways have Tocqueville Societies (named after Alexis De Tocqueville) for donors giving more than...
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Center for Political and Legal Thought, founded in 2007, is a research thematic unit within the Faculty of Law and Administration...
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    subject to approval by the ministers. General Political Climate Alexis de Tocqueville commented that “the collapse of commerce, ubiquitous hostility,...
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    Channel contributor. She once served as a senior fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. She is...
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    brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1835, French author Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: This Rock is become an object of veneration in the United...
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  • a German-born writer and editor of the works of Alexis de Tocqueville and founder of the Tocqueville Research Centre at the University of Reading where...
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    (Instruction); the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution; and Alexis de Tocqueville, who applied Montesquieu's methods to a study of American society...
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  • telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville, geologist Charles Lyell, electrical inventor Andrew Crosse and...
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