The topic for this week is equality in politics. You have readings by James Madison and Alexis Tocqueville. In these they talk about the relationship between the citizen and the government. Your own active reading should get you to find out who these individuals were.
Tocqueville Democracy in America
ch 15 http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/1_ch15.htm
ch 16 http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/1_ch16.htm
ch 17 http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/1_ch17.htm
Madison on Constitutionalism
The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm
The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm
contemporary essay
John Cassidy, (Links to an external site.)Is America an Oligarchy? New Yorker, April 18, 2014; http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy
Compare and contrast these two authors in terms of:
1) how they understand the idea of “tyranny;”
2) what they think might lead the US into tyranny;
3) what they think will keep the US from becoming a tyranny.
4) how would they respond to the New Yorker essay.
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