Tocqueville, a French sociologist traveled extensively to America in order to study the ideologies of democracy.
It was the time when there were many nations which embraced and appreciated the idea of democracy. He studied the American Democracy and found out the correlation between his belief of Egalitarianism and how best America tries to adopt it.
He meticulously observed the functional methodology of Democracy in America, and how the same could be applied in France. He even studied the goals of America and became well aware of the concept of Practical Democracy.