Jacksonian democrats believed that they were guardians of the Constitution and that they upheld its principles and defended its ideals of a democratic society. ... Upward mobility was what America was known for, and they believed that was one of the better aspects of America and should be preserved at all costs. ... European thinkers had only hypothesized situations where a seemingly utopian society in which every man had equal rights. Yet, with possible help from the influence of Native American culture, the United States had created a society with radically equal economic and political setti...

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The Handmaids Tale In the Novel "The Handmaids Tale" the narrator, Offred, guides us through a futuristic, post American, society governed by theocracy. ... This quote has a number of meanings, both in the immediate context, about Gilead, and society as a whole. ... Because the body operates in a very democratic fashion, the "democracy of bodily functions" is a sharp contrast to how things work in a totalitarian society. ... Because everything which comes into the body is diffused into the blood, every cell in the body receives an equal share (in this aspect at least, the body also beco...

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