- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
While Tocqueville names a certain number of advantages to a highly centralized political system, he’s mostly wary of intense centralization, warning that even a democratic centralized government can prove a threat to individual freedom. Here he emphasizes just how easy, if not inevitable, the process of handing power over to the central government can be in an age of democratic equality. Tocqueville doesn’t believe that democracies are necessarily fated to redistribute power to a centralized authority—indeed, he notes that America has been able to maintain “local liberties” in large part through its federalist political system and its love of political…