* Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who visited America in the early 1800s, famously wrote “Democracy in America” that details his observations of Americans and their culture, noting how distinctly different they were from his European counterparts. According to our Wilson text, “the Constitution and the physical advantages of the land cannot by themselves explain the persistence of any nation’s democratic institutions. Nor can they account for the fact that American democracy survived the Civil War…” From what you have studied thus far, if you were de Tocqueville today how would you describe modern-day America, our survival, contest over civil rights, quest for understanding or appreciation of civil liberties, etc. If not merely the Constitution, economic advantages, etc. what then can explain our survival as a nation with so many deep-seated tensions and opposition between groups.
* Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who visited America in the early 1800s, fam
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