Truly rule, and they rule without the danger of relapse into tyranny orĪnarchy. Tocqueville argues that in the United States the people The first is essentially anĪnswer to the question of how the Americans maintain with such success a stableīut lively democracy. ‘Democracy in America’ is written in two volumes. He was also astonished by the spectacle of American democracy and wished to understand how and why it worked.
Writing in the middle half of the 19 th century, Tocqueville questioned why the Americans had launched a revolution aimed at establishing a free, stable and constitutional government and made a success of it, while the French had done the same and ended up lurching from one form of government to another, including another revolution. Among the French he is best known for his commentary on the ‘ancien’ regime and the revolution. Among Americans, French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville is best known for his commentary on American democracy.
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