Tocqueville The Centralization Of Power Analysis

Before there was the revolution, the French Crown did its best to concentrate the power to its hands rather than having it divided to the local nobilities, as it was done in the Feudal times. As Tocqueville explains in his book, the most vivid description is the centralization of power that leads to the crown: the crown employed in a nutshell bureaucrats, who were usually from the outside of the nobility class (Tocqueville, Book II Chapter 2), to do the works of the nobility during the Feudal eras. Slowly, by employing those bureaucrats, the individual nobilities grew detached from the government, and the ancient societal responsibilities they held. Disinterest of the nobility from the “community making” synergized with the social burdens on …show more content…
(Of course, the new class would be adhered to the mass, since they do not have a position in the noble bloodlines.) Though the centralization led to a sharp division amongst the classes that led to the Revolution, the centralization and the centralized government structure were, according to Tocqueville, the only structure that is left of the old regime; while the past was shameful, and worthy of cutting back, it shows how this slow evolution of the governmental structure shaped the road to the revolution and within the revolution. In sum, the history of centralization of France led to the weakening of the nobility’s societal role while concentrating the authority to the new class and alienating the masses, thereby creating a class conflict and a failure of trust among the Three Estates; nevertheless, such societal disunity carved the way of the revolution into a way that all the feudal privileges were abolished to give each people, regardless of their background, equal status in that no one is overly privileged at the expense of the …show more content…
Due to such inequality, the class distinctions and conflicts led the people into the streets, and start voicing their