Tocqueville
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- proper noun
- /toʊkˈvɪl/
- The idea of American Exceptionalism can be traced back to Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- de Tocqueville
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America
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Watch on YouTubeThat is part de Tocqueville, part Henry David Thoreau.
- That is part de Tocqueville, part Henry David Thoreau.
- There are few things that might compare to it, but Tocqueville spent nine months here.
- America in even earlier times was known by de Tocqueville and others as the best poor man's country.
- Now more than ever, we need to rediscover the truly American small D democratic ideals of de Tocqueville and teach them to our kids.
- Do we learn more about what ails our country now from libertarian authors or from Plato and Tocqueville?
- This is the entire class of what Locke called voluntary associations, what de Tocqueville in his time called intermediate associations.
Examples
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Alexis de Tocqueville, the French observer of early American history, describes what he witnessed firsthand.
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But we must observe with Tocqueville that, whatever might be reasonable, the Americans and Europeans hardly seem satisfied.
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The authority of Tocqueville has never been greater than it is today.
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How did Tocqueville attempt to accomplish this?
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My purpose is to appeal to Tocqueville's authority to show that his influence is still not great enough.
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At one point, Tocqueville stood on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
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Tocqueville witnessed the importance of Christianity.
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Now more than ever, we need to rediscover the truly American small D democratic ideals of de Tocqueville and teach them to our kids.
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Meet Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who traveled through America in 1831 and wrote the classic book Democracy in America.
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Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across America in 1831 to analyze its political and social systems.
Synonyms
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A French writer who studied American society and democracy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tocqueville is a French family name that comes from a place name; the ending -ville means 'town' or 'farm', so the full name originally meant 'Tocque's town'. So the name shows the family came from that place, which is why we use Tocqueville for the French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville.