Essays on Democracy in America

What does it mean to be an American citizen? What does it mean to be great, to have the most money, or could it be to have the best military? To me great means to do the most good to the most amount of people….

The United States of America was founded on the principals of a people-run government that provides all men with equal rights. Yet, since the nation’s founding, America has struggled in making this a reality. As the founding fathers signed the Declaration and Independence, with the…

The United States of America is a great country. The United States has many things that other countries could only dream of. There are many things that make a country great, and the United States has them. A great country is backed by a strong…

In a world filled to the brim with negativity and anguish, we can count on America to keep us grounded. How wonderful it is to be able to live in a country with the most culture, with the most open-mindedness and with the most diversity….

America is a society like no other. A free and brave country. President John F. Kennedy once mentioned to us that America is a wonderful place because we are all here as one nation and we all stand together. He said, ‘Let every nation know,…

America, the land of the free and the home of the brave as some people like to call it. The way I see it, America is made great by the people who have shaped our nation. From people like George Washington to small-town people like…

The best part of America would be its freedom and it’s fundamental values, although presidents, judges, and senators change; what really represents America and what makes America great is our set of values. Although this essay isn’t about presidents it was perhaps a president that…

Kyle G. Volk’s Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy describes the beginnings of the vocal minority in American history by illustrating how they used the majority and public opinion to their advantage. Vocal minorities, in United States political history, are depicted as members…

Alexis de Tocqueville’s work, Democracy in America, is work of sociology which examines democracy in the United States. It is clear that de Tocqueville believed that democracy would inevitably prevail in the Western world. While that is important to note, the reality is, it does…

In the book “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville, probably the most renowned foreign writer on American government, gives a profound insight on the American Federal Constitution and its effects in America in regard to the power of the states and the construction of its…

The democratic rule of the majority is paradoxically ethical and tyrannical. “Democracy in America,” by Alexis De Tocqueville analyzes the tyranny of the majority theory and its role in forming political ideology and the constitution in America. In England, John Stuart Mill in “On Liberty”…

Finding and Achieving “the Good Life” What is the good life? Is it kicking back on the beach without a worry in the world? Is it freedom to do whatever one wishes? Or is it something more complex and meaningful than these? I believe that…

Natural Rights “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the…equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…they should declare…

A Deliberative Theory of Education and Democracy According to Aristotle, to “deliberate” means to “reflect on the pros and cons of ‘things that are in our control and are attainable by action (Kock and Villadsen).’” What this means is that, most simply, deliberation is argument….

Clash of Civilizations? After the event of September 11, 2001, Americans enters into the gripping fear of another attack. This attack was the first attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, more than half a decade prior. Following Pearl Harbor, the United States officially enters…