For example, an anonymous reviewer for Washington, D.C.'s Daily National Intelligencer wrote about the work as a whole: When a translation of the 1835 work was published in America in 1841, it met with positive comments. Their true intention, however, was to study the country's democratic institutions, and during their nine-month voyage across the eastern and middle eastern parts of the country, Tocqueville noted many facets of the country, including the institution of slavery and race relations. Thus he and his fellow assistant magistrate Gustave de Beaumont left on a tour of the United States with the ostensible intention of researching the prison system. The son of French aristocrats, Tocqueville trained as a lawyer and served as an assistant magistrate in Versailles, until it was advantageous for him to leave France for a time. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocquevilleĭemocracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) by Alexis de Tocqueville is an outsider's analysis of American political, social, and cultural institutions as the author encountered them in 1831.
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