Summary Of Democracy And America By Alexis Tocqueville

Democracy has guided America since its founding. A lot of people over the years have commented on the structure and formation of democracy but most importantly the daily function in the democratic boundaries that have been set. Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian born July 29, 1805. He is most famously known for his work in Democracy in America. Democracy in America is constantly developing socially and economically, and has continually changed since it was founded.

Tocqueville expresses what he feels about the US democratic government. Tocqueville thinks the government's nature exists in the majority, meaning that the citizens of the United States who are of legal age control legislation passed by the government.

Tocqueville believed that the majority and its unlimited power, would turn into a disaster. He felt that the moral beliefs of the majority would get in the way of the quality of the elected legislators. The idea was that in a big group of men, there was more intelligence, than in one person, lacking quality in legislation. Another disadvantage of the majority was that the interests of the majority always were preferred to the minority's. Therefore, giving the minority no chance to speak out against the majority and talk about what concerns them in any way. Tocqueville ends his argument with “Democracy and America” by asking, “How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the

Americans are informed, but on the other hand they are also misinformed as well. As the U.S. becomes more and more informed and less reliant on being told what to do without any say, they have also become more misinformed. It gets harder and harder to tell fact from fiction on their own. Democracy a lot better without polarization. Polarization is the product of a two-party system driven to extremes by an unmoderated political media environment. To become functional again, our polarized democracy can only be broken by a third party. A viable third party is only possible in a well-regulated campaign finance environment. The problem is that no one ever pays attention to any third parties, it's either left or right and whichever side has the majority, always