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  1. Democracy in America, Volumes I & II, Complete by Alexis De Tocqueville, 2009-04-01
  2. De la démocratie en Amérique: Tome 1 (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2001-04-12
  3. Alexis De Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society: Selected Writings (The Heritage of Sociology) by Alexis de Tocqueville, John D. Stone, et all 1980-07
  4. Memoir, Letters And Remains Of Alexis De Tocqueville V2 by Alexis De Tocqueville, 2007-07-25
  5. MEMOIR ON PAUPERISM: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society? by Alexis De Tocqueville, 2006-02-01
  6. Nouvelle Correspondance Entièrement Inédite de Alexis de Tocqueville (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2009-04-27
  7. Souvenirs de Alexis de Tocqueville: Publié par le comte de Tocqeville (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2002-04-30
  8. oeuvres et correspondance inédites d'Alexis de Tocqueville: Publiées et précédées d'une notice, par Gustave de Beaumont. Tome 2 (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2002-04-30
  9. Memoirs, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville (2) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2009-12-20
  10. Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2009-12-27
  11. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2010-10-14
  12. ?uvres et correspondance inédites d'Alexis de Tocqueville: Publiées et précédées d'une notice, par Gustave de Beaumont. Tome 1 (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2002-04-30
  13. Democracy In America Volume I - Alexis De Tocqueville by Alexis De Tocqueville, 2010-02-20
  14. De la démocratie en Amérique: Tome 2 (French Edition) by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2001-04-16

41. Democracy In America By Alexis De Tocqueville 1831
democracy In America alexis de tocqueville 1831. Chapter XVII Principal Causes Maintaining The democratic tocqueville Archive Table of contents.
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Democracy In America Alexis de Tocqueville 1831
Principal Causes Which Tend To Maintain The Democratic Republic In The United States A democratic republic subsists in the United States, and the principal object of this book has been to account for the fact of its existence. Several of the causes which contribute to maintain the institutions of America have been involuntarily passed by or only hinted at as I was borne along by my subject. Others I have been unable to discuss, and those on which I have dwelt most are, as it were, buried in the details of the former parts of this work. I think, therefore, that before I proceed to speak of the future, I cannot do better than collect within a small compass the reasons which best explain the present. In this retrospective chapter I shall be succinct, for I shall take care to remind the reader very summarily of what he already knows; and I shall only select the most prominent of those facts which I have not yet pointed out. All the causes which contribute to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United States are reducible to three heads: - I. The peculiar and accidental situation in which Providence has placed the Americans.

42. United Way Of North Central Massachusetts - Alexis De Tocqueville Society
Since its inception, the alexis de tocqueville Society has been the preeminent philanthropic association in North Central Massachusetts.
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Donate Online Workplace Giving Leadership Circles Alexis de Tocqueville Society ... United Way partnership receives national recognition Alexis de Tocqueville Society
"I am a big supporter United Way because their deep understanding of community needs and expert advice which allows me to accomplish more through my charitable giving."
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Resource Management Since its inception, the Alexis de Tocqueville Society has been the pre-eminent philanthropic association in North Central Massachusetts. Each year its generous and distinguished members have stepped forward to demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to positive change in North Central Massachusetts through United Way.
The Society takes its name from the French historian and aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville who expressed his admiration of the American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor in his classic treatise Democracy in America. The Alexis de Tocqueville Society has been at the forefront of philanthropic leadership in North Central Massachusetts since 1995. We’re proud to recognize local philanthropists who make an annual contribution of $10,000 or more to United Way.
Through unparalleled commitment, society members reflect extraordinary concern, foresight, and dedication to breaking the cycle of poverty and inspiring a better way of life for everyone in North Central Massachusetts.

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Recently, an obscure Washington thinktank, the alexis de tocqueville Institution . Why do you run the alexis de tocqueville Institution Web site on the
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By David F. Skoll June 10 2002 Recently, an obscure Washington think-tank, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI), posted a press release promising a study which "outlines how open source might facilitate efforts to disrupt or sabotage electronic commerce, air traffic control or even sensitive surveillance systems." The report has yet to be released, so in this article, I comment only on what I've seen so far in the press, and on replies to questions I posed to the author of the paper and the head of the AdTI. If I manage to get a copy of the actual report, I will post further commentary. Who Funded the Report? The first and most obvious question that the discerning reader should ask him or herself is "who funded the report?" Think tanks don't think for free; they are commissioned to do studies. And very often, who funds a study has a strong effect on the conclusions of the study. When I questioned him about the funding source, Gregory Fossedal, head of AdTI, replied "it isn't our general policy to discuss who does and doesn't fund de Tocqueville, except in the case of qualified press or public officials who are willing to make symmetrical disclosures."

44. Deltoid » 2004 » May
This is a list of the documents that detail the astroturf campaign conducted by the alexis de tocqueville Institute (ADTI) on behalf of Philip Morris (PM)
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Posted by Tim Lambert under survey No Comments Last December I examined attacking gun control review of More Guns, Less Crime by Thomas Jackson: fabricated a survey carry laws increase crime More Guns, Less Crime which Lott wrote before he starting claiming to have done a survey. (Though even then, if Jackson had checked the literature on defensive gun use he would have known that the 98% claim was wrong.) John Ray has no such excuse. Update: I emailed a link to this post to John Ray. He replied: Will link to your site probably tomorrow. Instead of linking to my criticism, he has now posted a highly misleading defence of Lott
  • The fact that he could not produce the data was not brought to light by a libertarian blogger, but by Otis Dudley Duncan, an eminent sociologist from UCSB. Mustard has not testified that Lott did a survey, but that Lott told him that he had done a survey. The full quote from Mother Jones is
  • Tue 4 May 2004
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    45. Les Classiques Des Sciences Sociales: Alexis De Tocqueville
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    46. 61334. Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996
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    47. Book Review The Journal Of American History, 94.2 The
    During the winter and spring of 1859, in the throes of his last illness, alexis de tocqueville sought relief for his ravaged lungs in the villa Montfleury
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    Alexis de Tocqueville: A Biography During the winter and spring of 1859, in the throes of his last illness, Alexis de Tocqueville sought relief for his ravaged lungs in the villa Montfleury in Cannes. In Hugh Brogan's superlative biography we can follow the dying historian as he traveled the course of those final months. He burst into sobs at the arrival of his dearest lifelong friend and traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont. He made unreasonable demands on his overburdened wife, Marie. He read Edward Gibbon with wondrous amazement and worried about his unfinished history of the French Revolution. From John Stuart Mill he received a copy of

    48. 'Alexis De Tocqueville': The First French Critic Of The US | Csmonitor.com
    The French scholar went to America in pursuit of better ideas for his own country.
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    724 pp., $35 Page 1 of 2 The 18th and 19th centuries were a tumultuous time in Europe. France, in particular, was looking to find its feet after its revolution, which had wiped out a considerable part of its nobility. Under these circumstances, it was but natural that scholars of the age looked outward for better forms of governance. Among these, the name of French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville must reign supreme. After a brief visit to America in 1831, he came to write the definitive book on American democracy and many of his insights remain relevant to this day. And yet, for almost two centuries, there has been no comprehensive English-language biography of Tocqueville. That gap is now filled by Hugh Brogan's absorbing, exhaustive Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.

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    50. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexis De Tocqueville
    de BEAUMONT Notice sur alexis de tocqueville (Paris 1897); D EICHTHAL, tocqueville et la démocratie libérale (Paris 1897); FAGUET, Politiques et moralistes
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    (CHARLES-ALEXIS-HENRI-MAURICE-CLEREL DE TOCQUEVILLE) Writer and statesman, b. at Verneuil, Department of Seine-et-Oise, 29 July 1805; d. at Cannes, 16 April, 1859. He was the great grandson of Malesherbes, the defender of Louis XVI. As a judge at Versailles in 1830 he formed a friendship with Gustave de Beaumont, with whom he traveled to America in 1831. Tocqueville's letters show that he foresaw what strides the Church was destined to made in America and likewise the dogmatic nothingness which would result from Unitarianism France French Academy The library of the seminary bishop of Vincennes, who registered in the margin a number of exceptions to Tocqueville's assertions. These notes have been transcribed by Mgr Baunard . Tocqueville held that democracy could exist only by seeking a moral support in religion , and that religion could only prosper by accommodating itself to democracy, but he is inclined to regard as too severe the doctrinal disciplinary and liturgical exactions of Catholicism , and in Mgr Baunard's opinions his work leaves the impression he was only half Catholic The work has been charged with several serious defects as regards political observation; he dealt at too great length with the constitution and organism of the central government, paying too little attention to the provincial legislation of the various states of the

    51. Encéphi - Alexis De Tocqueville
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    par André Lacroix , du cégep du Vieux Montréal Alexis de Tocqueville. Juriste et penseur politique français, 1805-1859 Sa vie en bref Aristocrate français né à Paris, en 1805, Alexis de Tocqueville est issu d'une famille ultra-royaliste partiellement décimée par la Terreur qui suivit la Révolution française de 1789. Pour cette raison sans doute, il se méfiera toute sa vie des intentions révolutionnaires sans pour autant verser dans un conservatisme à tout crin. De fait, cette méfiance ne l'empêchera pas d'être un libéral engagé, lui qui vivait justement à une époque où la France tentait maladroitement de réfréner la montée des revendications sociales mises de l'avant à la faveur de la Révolution française. Auparavant, le jeune Tocqueville aura toutefois pris soin de poursuivre ses études en droit avant d'être nommé juge auditeur en 1827, à Versailles. L'état de sa société suscite par ailleurs de profonds déchirement chez Tocqueville, le laissant écartelé entre les traditions familiales et ses sympathies naturelles à l'égard d'un système politique plus démocratique, à l'image de celui développé par les Américains depuis 1776. Et cette sympathie était d'autant plus importante que ses lectures de Châteaubriand l'avaient convaincu que la liberté américaine avait plus à voir avec la liberté des Lumières que celle des primitifs dépeinte par Rousseau. Un voyage d'étude de neuf mois aux États Unis, voyage qui devait permettre au juriste qu'il était d'étudier le système carcéral américain considéré par les philanthropes d'alors comme étant le plus évolué de l'époque, allait d'ailleurs lui permettre de vérifier de près les thèses de Châteaubriand. En fait, bien davantage un prétexte pour fuir momentanément son pays où son engagement politique lui vaut quelques inimitiés qu'un véritable voyage d'étude, il profite de son séjour pour cumuler une importante quantité de notes sur la vie politique américaine.

    52. Powell's Books - Democracy In America (Penguin Classics) By Alex De Tocqueville
    In 1831 alexis de tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a ninemonth journey throughout America. The result was democracy
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    53. Alexis De Tocqueville Serves Up A Red Herring
    The press release announcing the alexis de tocqueville Institution s recent white paper proclaims that open source software is a threat to national security
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    The use of "terrorism" and "national security" are shameful attempts to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push Microsoft's monopolistic agenda. Recently, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (ADTI) released a report entitled Opening the Open Source Debate , which condemned open source software. While the ADTI may be a little-known research firm, the white paper created quite a stir in the Internet community. This may have been due in part to the fact that the document was heralded by a panicky ADTI press release entitled Open Source Software May Offer Target for Terrorists. ad infinitum ). Indeed, the white paper runs contrary to a July 2001 MITRE paper March 2002 interview courtroom testimony an article ... IDG.net story We Need to Pull Our Hands Out of the Sand Further Reading: An Excellent Analysis of the ATDI Report by David Skoll, Roaring Penguin.com The Freedom to Innovate Includes The Freedom to Obfuscate:
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    54. Did MS Pay For Open-Source Scare?
    Opening the Open Source debate, a white paper slated to be released Friday by the alexis de tocqueville Institution, indicates that opensource software
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    Michelle Delio Reader's advisory: Wired News has been unable to confirm some sources Authors of a new report on the perils of open source software are being very closed-mouth about their funding sources. "Opening the Open Source Debate," a white paper slated to be released Friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, indicates that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software. The report warns governments against relying on open-source software for national security. Open-source advocates wondered if the white paper is actually a veiled Microsoft response to recent reports of rising government and military interest in open-source systems. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. "We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman wrote in an e-mail.

    55. Alexis De Tocqueville - Research And Read Books, Journals
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    56. The Alexis De Tocqueville Award
    To honor the tradition of tocqueville’s pioneering work, the Independent Institute awards The alexis de tocqueville Award to outstanding individuals in
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    Born to aristocratic parents in 1805 shortly after the French Revolution, Alexis-Charles-Henri de Tocqueville was to become the greatest classical liberal thinker of the 19th century. At an early age, he distanced himself from the prejudices of his social standing, and joined the struggle to establish a free society in France. His alarm at the dangers of political centralization, and his perception that tyranny could be rooted in the despotism of either an elite or a majority, led him to travel through America to observe a society that was both equalitarian and decentralized. In 1831, at the age of 29, Tocqueville spent nine months traveling the breadth of Jacksonian America to inquire into the future of French society, as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a radically decentralized civil society in America. The result was set forth in his masterful book, Democracy in America The Alexis de Tocqueville Award

    57. De Tocqueville, Alexis (Informational Paper)
    An historical overview of Frenchman alexis de tocqueville and his journey through America in the 1800 s.
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    58. Alexis De Tocqueville Society / UWCNM
    The alexis de tocqueville Society is a leadership recognition program established at the United Way of Central New Mexico in 1996.
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    We are United Way of Central New Mexico. We serve the people of Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and Valencia counties who are least able to help themselves. On this website you will be able to read about Our Purpose, learn more about how we function, or find out how we can help with What Matters to You.
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    The Alexis de Tocqueville Society is a leadership recognition program established at the United Way of Central New Mexico in 1996. It was founded in honor of the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville who, in the early nineteenth century, wrote about the American spirit of volunteerism. "When an American asks for the cooperation of their fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously, and with great will."
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    60. NCPA - Study #235 - Wealth, Mobility, Inheritance And The Estate Tax
    alexis de tocqueville noted that the rich are constantly becoming poor and the rich daily rise out of the crowd and constantly return thither.
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    The federal estate tax has been instituted and repealed several times. Usually it has been seen as a source of revenue, rather than a means of redistributing wealth. But the current tax is clearly designed to redistribute wealth: it is imposed on estates with a value of as little as $675,000 and rises rapidly to an effective tax rate of 60 percent - the second highest estate tax rate of any country in the world. Yet the estate tax does less to redistribute wealth than the continual churning of the American economy. Because wealth and income are both highly mobile in the United States, most fortunes are earned, rather than inherited, and rarely survive past the second generation.
    • One study found that among the top 5 percent of households ranked by wealth, inheritances accounted for less than 8 percent of assets.
    • A recent study of U.S. millionaires found that 80 percent acquired their wealth in a single generation, without the benefit of inheritances.

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