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What feature of American civil society made an impact on Tocqueville

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Equality

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Tocqueville stated in Democracy in America that he saw far more equality amoung Americans (free Americans at least) compared to the social stratification of aristocracy in France. There was sitll a rich-poor divide, but there was not a permanent lesiure class which individuals belonged to by virture of birth.

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