The norms of tolerance, reciprocity, and trust are important " habits of the heart ," as de Tocqueville put it, in an individual's involvement in community.

Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution was a manifestation of a more prosperous middle class becoming conscious of its social importance.

He was involved in 1994 as writer and reviewer of a report on the issue by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, where he was a senior fellow.

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Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1831,

Alexis de Tocqueville also claimed that jury trials educate citizens about self-government.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

In the second chapter, de Tocqueville describes America's unique religious heritage from the Puritans.

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In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called Samizdat.

Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm foundation for American democracy.

The theme of a religious basis of economic discipline is echoed in sociologist Max Weber's work, but both de Tocqueville and Weber argued that this discipline was not a force of economic determinism, but one factor among many that should be considered when evaluating the relative economic success of the Puritans.

For example, classical scholar Alexis de Tocqueville differentiated between 1 ) political revolutions 2 ) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society and 3 ) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about ( ex.

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In the first half of the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville had observations about American life that seemed to outline and define social capital.

The concept that underlies social capital has a much longer history ; thinkers exploring the relation between associational life and democracy were using similar concepts regularly by the 19th century, drawing on the work of earlier writers such as James Madison ( The Federalist Papers ) and Alexis de Tocqueville ( Democracy in America ) to integrate concepts of social cohesion and connectedness into the pluralist tradition in American political science.

The concept originates from Alexis de Tocqueville, who asserted that the then-50-year-old United States held a special place among nations because it was a country of immigrants and the first modern democracy.

" During this time Houston was interviewed by the author Alexis de Tocqueville, who was traveling in the United States and its territories.

In the 1830s, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville identified one of the key characteristics of America that would later make it so amenable to the development of mass production: the homogeneous consumer base.

Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian.

Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee in 1831,

Both Hitler in 1940 and de Gaulle in 1944 observed this custom.

Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

On the other hand, practices may exist de jure and not be obeyed or observed by the people.

In 1880, Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac observed spectroscopic lines due to gadolinium in samples of gadolinite ( which actually contains relatively little gadolinium, but enough to show a spectrum ), and in the separate mineral cerite.

In 1944, Hendrik van de Hulst predicted microwave radiation at a wavelength of 21 cm resulting from interstellar atomic hydrogen gas ; this radiation was observed in 1951.

Bernard de Voto, in his 1953 Westward the Course of Empire, observed: " The Indians had an experience they were never to repeat: they were sorry to see these white men leave.

In the 18th century, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis made experiments with scorpion venom and observed that certain dogs and mice were immune to this venom.

:: Verzeichniss ( Containing the above star atlas, and including 5, 058 stars observed by Flamsteed, Hevelius, T. Mayer, de la Caille, Messier, le Monnier, Darquier and Bode himself.

The Motul Dictionary, compiled in the 16th century by an anonymous author ( although attributed to Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real ), contains a list of stars originally observed by the ancient Mayas.

The idea of reducing the vertical color resolution comes from Henri de France, who observed that color information is approximately identical for two successive lines.

In his Traité de métaphysique Voltaire observed that, even if the argument from design could prove the existence of a powerful intelligent designer, it would not prove that this designer is God.

' He further observed that ' the only modes known to the common law to re-examine such facts was the granting of a new trial by the court where the issue was tried, or the award of a venire facias de novo, by the appellate court, for some error of law that had intervened in the proceedings.

* A de facto truce is observed between England and France until 1355.

General Washington acknowledged to de Grasse the importance of his role in the victory: " You will have observed that, whatever efforts are made by the land armies, the navy must have the casting vote in the present contest.

In contrast to Independence Day, described above, Cinco de mayo is observed mostly at a local level ( Puebla State ) and is a minor Bank Holiday in the rest of Mexico.

In July 1662, he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of Johannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial solar eclipse.

An eminent French astronomer, Emmanuel Liais, who was working for the Brazilian government in Rio de Janeiro in 1859, claimed to have been studying the surface of the Sun with a telescope twice as powerful as Lescarbault's at the very moment that Lescarbault said he observed his mysterious transit.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed the film " is not blindingly brilliant, and is not an example of the very best work of the director who made The Year of Living Dangerously or the actor who starred in Cyrano de Bergerac.

In his published work in 1863 entitled " Recherches sur le developpement de quelques champignons parasites ", he reported having inoculated spores of P. infestans on healthy potato leaves and observed the penetration of the leaf and the subsequent growth of the mycelium that affected the tissue, the formation of conidia, and the appearance of the characteristic black spots of the potato blight.

The consensus honoree for the first description is the Belgian missionary Louis Hennepin, who observed and described the falls in 1677, earlier than Kalm, after traveling with the explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, thus bringing the falls to the attention of Europeans.

Non est inquirendum, unde venit venison (" It is not to be inquired, whence comes the venison "), observed Guillaume Budé in his Traitté de la venerie.

As often happens in science, radioactivity came close to being discovered nearly four decades earlier when, in 1857, Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor, who was investigating photography under Michel Eugène Chevreul, observed that uranium salts emitted radiation able to darken photographic emulsions.

A circadian cycle was first observed in the 18th century in the movement of plant leaves by the French scientist Jean-Jacques d ' Ortous de Mairan ( for a description of circadian rhythms in plants by de Mairan, Linnaeus, and Darwin see this page ).