Which detail best illustrates Tocqueville's belief that - for most Americans - equality creates more
turmoil than satisfaction?
A.) The inhabitants are, for the most part, extremely ignorant and poor, they take no part
in the business of the country and are frequently oppressed by the government,"
(Paragraph 1)
B.) The spectacle itself, however, is as old as the world; the novelty is to see a whole
people furnish the exemplification of it" (Paragraph 6)
C.) "Men will then be seen continually to change their track for fear of missing the shortest
cut to happiness." (Paragraph 9)
D.) “Among democratic nations, men easily attain a certain equality of condition, but they
can never attain as much as they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet
without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on." (Paragraph 13)