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The recent resurgence of antidemocratic attitudes makes it more
urgent than ever that our nation reengage with a fundamental question:
Does the American way of life require a participatory democracy and an
engaged citizenry, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed in the 1830s when
he wrote, "The political activity that pervades the United States
must be seen in order to be understood. When Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in the early years of
the nineteenth century he was impressed above all by American democracy
and religious faith. Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States in 1831
in search of the American character or, as he put it, ``the image of
democracy itself. |
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