In the canon
Democracy in America
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1835
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 870
A French aristocrat tours America and argues that its equality of conditions is the future headed for the whole world, warning that democracy's real danger is not tyranny from above but conformity pressed by the majority itself.
Nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions.
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