Tocqueville Democracy In America Analysis

Tocqueville: Final Exam In Tocqueville’s Democracy in America he is hopeful because of the similarities and sameness that American democracy and French democracy shared and continue to share. Democracy is a pivotal part to America and the way of life American’s are accustomed to. From the founding fathers to the first colonies of New England democracy has always been a part of it. A country without full democracy cannot survive, looking at slavery when African Americans were no longer allowed the basic human rights they deserved they lost their part of democracy that ended in a war. Although democracy in American exist it has its moments of being a racial democracy were one race can survive better then another. For example, white males do …show more content…
Of these ideas he states, “America has no neighbors and consequently has had no great wars or finical crisis, nor large armies nor great generals (Tocqueville 289).” Through history though we have had great wars, finical crisis and large armies this according to Tocqueville should be enough to keep us from having this democratic state that we have had for so long. Although to Tocqueville these ideas may make his worry about a democratic state in America to most American’s it has only improved the very democracy that stands, there are no fears of war knocking on the front door. At the time of this book being written Tocqueville was also able to say that America could keep democracy by not having a great capital city (Tocqueville 289). This was because at the time one of the largest cities New York only had around two hundred thousand occupants. Although America has gotten bigger and had everything happen that Tocqueville praised for not happening democracy in America is still one of the strongest and most formulated in the