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What major difference did Tocqueville witness when he visited America in 1831?

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rench sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with a wealth of broader observations that he codified in “Democracy in America”
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Alexis Clérel Viscount de Tocqueville from France visited America in 1831 and found as major differences from American socio political system, its focus on individualism as an anchor and essential part of its democratic system, the political apathy of its citizens produced by the distrust on social authorities and a latent despotism as a possible threat for democracy in the long term.

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