Democracy In America
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville gives what appears as an unbiased opinion of what the new America looks like through his eyes and travels around the country. He begins with reflections of the American landscape describing the oceans, mountains and even the fertility of the soil.
He states that the one dominate feature about the social condition of the Anglo-Americans dominates all others, that being democracy. He gives me the impression, that though he is impressed with our patriotic values, he is jealous and unsure of what to make of it being that there has been no other form of government in existence in the modern world. He tells of how he views this new American people as almost aloof and money hungry. Strangely I have to wonder where this man has the means to travel to America in the first place, mentioning nowhere about his own...