Alexis De Tocqueville: Democracy In America

During the 1830’s a prominent philosopher known as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote a book titled Democracy in America, in which Tocqueville describes his residency in America, as he concluded to why democratic change in the United States of America was successful. Tocqueville, was sent from France to examine why democracy flourished so peacefully throughout America, unlike in France. During his hospitality, Tocqueville toured around America, studying how the citizens, were so adoptive of this newly form concept of democracy. As Tocqueville traveled around the region, he noticed that the spread of democracy is irreversible and irresistible, due to the condition of equality, it gives the people a sense of common ground, in which everyone is capable …show more content…
When high elected officials receive their salary, to the poor men a modest sum to a wealthy man seems immense to the poor man, only because the poor person contents himself with the necessaries of life. In addition, when the representative tries to make the poor man understand the importance of representing the nation, the poor man will not understand because he is ignorant and can only think of his responsibilities and what he can do with all that remuneration that the high elected official is getting paid for. Yet, in democracy, the secondary official is at the same level with the people, however the high elected official is at a more heighten