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Alexis De Tocqueville Democracy In America Summary

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Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman, ventured through America during Andrew Jackson's presidency. In the first volume of his work, Democracy in America, Tocqueville provides a clear understanding of the nature of modern democracy. In the work that he published about the United States after his adventuring, Tocqueville describes the attributes of which the United States possessed which classified a distinct, coming-to-be more modernized form of democracy in the early nineteenth century. In that time period, beginning with Andrew Jackson's presidency, rapid changes occurred in many different concepts which shaped and formed the nation into newer forms that were modified as time progressed and different ideas and plans were passed around throughout
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