When citizens can only meet in public for certain purposes, they regard such meetings as a strange proceeding of rare occurrence, and they rarely think at all about it. When they are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon public association as the universal or in a manner the sole, means which men can employ to accomplish the different purposes they may have in view. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840 Which value is best reflected in this excerpt? A Liberty B Populism C Laissez-faire