Aristotle

Aristotle was all about government so I think he would have liked seeing the Declaration of Independence being signed. He wasn't about democracy but he liked where people came together to make sets of rules to make common people happy. He liked the thought of structure.

The elements of society in the painting are people coming together in a group to create a government. People were in agreement and people signed the paper. There was a leader over them all, and that's how government works today. There is a President still over everyone and everyone in the government is common people elected.

Aristotle would have said that our government was more of an oligarchy because in the time the wealthy people were the ones who got to be rulers. Still today people with more money get more power. Poor people don't usually get into government because people tend to think that poor people have less education and that they cannot rule our country. We still get a say in the government and that is why he would classify us as an oligarchy.

They were all people who demonstrated great leadership for their colonies. People from all the colonies got to agree or disagree with the conference. They all got to sign the Declaration of Independence because they showed their characteristics as great in society. They were probably all wealthy people too.

Tocqueville believes Democracy is a good way to run our country. He thinks France failed at it because the aspects they focused on were not right. He says that we "arise from a very general idea men have conceived of God, of his relations with the human race, of the nature of their souls, and of their duties towards those like them". That's why our government works for the people here.