"Try as they might, no people can ever achieve a perfect equality of conditions. Should a nation be unfortunate enough to reach such a state of absolute and complete leveling, it would still be left with inequalities of intelligence, and these, steming as they do directly from God, will always elude laws." (Alexis de Tocqueville)
What does this say to a democratic society in search of equality?
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What do you think?
Reading de Tocqueville in class the question has arisen: do Americans value equality above liberty?
What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts?
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