1. Edmund Burke & Alexis de Tocqueville Group I Matthew Kern, Matthew Trout, Brittany Murphy, Darren Lalloo Tyler Hampton

3. he collaborated with two friends on a periodical paper that discussed controversial topics of the time, specifically politics

4. Began Political Career in 1765 in which he strove for a wiser treatment of the American colonies

5. although he also supported the Declaratory Act, asserting Britain's constitutional right to tax the colonists.

6. Feared political reform beyond limitations on the power of the crown

8. Considered the founder of modern conservatism

9. Founded Dublin’s Trinity College Debating Club, which would later become the oldest undergrad society in the world

11. Satirical writing that attacked the political rationalism and religious skepticism of Henry St. John

12. Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime & Beautiful (1757)

13. was a study of aesthetic values of life

14. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

15. Became the first political philosopher to argue the value of political parties.

17. Constant political tensions between England and France.

18. His Irish background made him sympathetic towards Catholicism

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.

24. Burke eloquently advocates for the dangers that lie in democracy.

27. He was prominent in politics, particularly just before and just after the Revolution of 1848

28. 1831, went on a government mission to the United States to study the penal system

29. Which resulted in the writing of “Democracy in America”, one of the classics of political literature

30. Deepest commitment was to human freedom

31. Believed that political democracy and social equality would, inevitably, replace the aristocratic institutions of Europe

32. Analyzed the American effort to have both liberty and equality

34. Received permission, from the then ruling July Monarchy, to study prison reforms in America, spending nine months in the country

36. Written about observations made in 1831 during a government mission to the United States to study the penal system

37. L'Ancien Régime et la révolution (The Old Regime and Revolution 1856)

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.”

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.

47. Does conservatism as it was once Known truly exist anymore?

49. Sources Cited Knoebel, Edgar E. "Edmund Burke: "Reflections on the Revolution in France", Alexis De Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"" The Modern World. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Print. arris, Ian, "Edmund Burke", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/burke/>. "Tocqueville, Alexis de." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1968. Retrieved October 17, 2011 from Encyclopedia.com: <http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3045001265.html>