delves deep into how the American States and the federal government would grow

politically and socially under the umbrella of democracy. He sees the United

States as a unique entity because of how and why it started as well as its

De Tocqueville explains that the foundations of the

democratic process in America are completely different from anywhere else on

the globe. The land was virginal and the colonies had almost complete sovereignty

from England from the very beginning because they were separated by an ocean

and financial troubles. The people who came to America were the oppressed

and unhappy in England and all were trying to find a place where they could

start anew and create a political structure that would facilitate an individual

freedom unlike anything that they had previously experienced in Europe. De

Tocqueville believed that the nature of democracy in the New World rested within

the fact that all of the emigrants were basically from the same social strata,

resulting in the first new country where there was no preliminary basis for

an aristocracy. "Land is the basis of an aristocracy...and... [in America] when

have come to light in the last few decades. He views the majority not as

economic and political arenas. But the introduction of slavery into labor

distress...The influence of slavery, united to the English character, explains

represented? The original thought behind the majority was that the consensus

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the manners and the social condition of the Southern States(42)." With the

upon the uninformed voting habits of the public today, is that still the case?

major division between its people: the North and the South. De Tocqueville

saw two very different attitudes in these regions. The North and the South

creating an even more fertile ground for the majority to gain more power than

will be susceptible to its "vigor." The States will be most likely torn apart

which is not difficult. Yet, there is still some element that has kept the

vision of American education, or lack there of, again comes into play. It

Democracy is a facilitator of a blended

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