2. Contrast Federalist and Anti-Federalist models of a republic. Explain four distinct differences.
3. Grinde draws numerous parallels between Iroquois governance and American political terms. Explain four of these parallels. What is one outstanding difference between Iroquois and American models of governance of that period according to Grinde?
4. What is the nature of the democratic despotism that Tocqueville fears? How might it come about? How would it be different from previous despotisms? Briefly explain two means by which Tocqueville thinks it can be prevented or forestalled.
5. Explain Calhouns concept of concurrent majority. How does it rectify what he considers the chief flaw or deficiency of government based on numerical majority? Discuss one problem you see with his model of government.
6. Summarize the positions of the three abolitionist currents, or phases, according to Frederick Douglass. With which current was Douglass allied? Why did he prefer it?
2. Liberal values include political liberty and respect for civil and human rights. How does Rogin think that Americans justified the denial of these to Native Americans?
3. What are two arguments for womens rights that Abigail Adams makes in her letters to her husband and to Mercy Warren? Give two examples of how John Adams responded in defense of Masculine systems and the right of the men to govern the women, without their consent in his reply to his wife and in his letter to James Sullivan.
4. Tocqueville sees in the development of industry the possibility of a new aristocracy arising. How does Tocqueville describe the social classes emerging from industrial production? Why is he not unduly concerned about this, given his opposition to aristocratic rule?
5. What is the significance of duty and conscience in Martineau? How is it related to womens rights and to the life choices of women?
6. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton speaks of woman, who does she mean? How does the notion of educated suffrage fit into her conception of woman and the political role she is entitled to?
7. In Resistance to Civil Government Thoreau draws a series of contrasts between the behavior of the State (both its own actions and the those it expects or demands of individuals) and the requirements of an ethical life. Explain three of these contrasts.
What is the basic fact about American life that preoccupies Tocqueville in Democracy in America?
What term does Du Bois use to describe the divided consciousness of African-Americans?