21. Focused on the practicality of the way the government functions for its people rather than its metaphysical value; how do we facilitate getting food, rather than our right to having food and medicine.
22. Burke used this letter as a vehicle for trying to keep the British from imitating The French.
23. Burkes protestant background, philosophical, historical knowledge and extreme stake in the Whig party provided his hermeneutical lenses on his view of the revolution.
40. “In America, religion is perhaps less powerful than it has been at certain periods… but it’s influence is more lasting.”
41. “The Americans have not required to extract their philosophical methods from books; they have found it in themselves.”
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43. Tocqueville plays devils advocate to industrialization, public opinion, majority rule and democratic leadership
44. Tocqueville deviates from Burke; believes that a society can function on the basis of popular liberty versus Burke’s implications of the people possessing too much power in society.
45. Seeks to investigate as the central concern the balance of individual freedom, materialism and conformity in relation to an egalitarian order.
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