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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Noun1.Alexis de Tocqueville - French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859)


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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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