Document Paper #2

In the first document, Industrial Aristocracy, the author is talking about how industry in its turn
could well lead men back to aristocracy. In the second document the authors is talking about
America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against
tyranny. (Tyranny of the Majority, 261) In the last the document the author is talking about how
under the action of the state governments slavery would gradually disappear from the states.
(Constitutional limits of slavery)

One of the most common themes of all three of the documents that is the notion of displacement
of how the United States government is currently operating. During the time period of when the
documents Industrial Aristocracy and Tyranny of the majority were written the United States
was beginning to enter the industrial revolution stage of its life. The United States was beginning
to form its very first banks. People were starting to expand out west thanks to the industrial
revolutions that made it possible to travel further out west and still be able to thrive in the
economy. With the industrial revolution the United States was creating its democracy type of
government. The industrial revolution began to see the creation of people becoming more like an
aristocrat as stated in the Industrial Aristocracy document, Thus as the mass of the nation
turns to democracy, the particular class occupied with industry becomes more aristocratic.
The second document compares democracys weaknesses such as What I most reproach in
democratic government, as it has been organized in the United States, is not, as many people in
Europe claim, its weakness, but on the contrary, its irresistible force and what is most repugnant

to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of guarantee against
tyranny. (Tyranny of the majority) During these times when the documents were written the
north had a free labor which means the labor of free man whereas the south used slaves for their
labor. In the North free labors were treated worse off than the slaves of the south. Slaves in the
south were had no freedom, but they enjoyed better diets, lower rates of infant mortality, and
longer life expectancies. (Textbook) Whereas the northern counterparts had to provide
everything themselves by working and competing with the poor laborers.