Though praising our pioneering restlessness and drive, as well as our willingness to assist neighbors in trouble, he nonetheless worries that democracy too readily fosters intellectual and social conformity, resulting in a culture of complacent mediocrity. (183540), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century. After noting that the laws governing inheritance provide an essential key to understanding human affairs, he goes on to critique the American’s inordinate love for money. What Causes Democratic Nations to Incline toward Pantheism, How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man. Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, Francedied April 16, 1859, Cannes), political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. Alexis de Tocqueville (1850) by Theodore Chasseriau. He believed this social change would lead to more equality and widespread economic opportunity. The author of ‘Democracy in America’ wondered if equality would eventually destroy liberty. Jaramillo, eds., Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis. In the commanding translation by Arthur Goldhammer for the Library of America, Tocqueville declares that his book simply aims “to familiarize the reader with the laws of the United States.” In its many pages, he duly explains the advantages of a political system both regulated by checks and balances and divided between state and federal governments, devotes his most brilliant chapter to the sociological impact of the republic’s “three races” - the exploited and abused Native Americans, the enslaved Blacks and the mainly Christian Anglo-Europeans - and repeatedly stresses our country’s peculiar intertwining of religious zeal and jingoist patriotism. This is the two volume set of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, first published in 18, in which the author examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several hundred years.

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