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French Revolution
[[Image:Alexis de tocqueville.jpg|right|thumb|Alexis de Tocqueville]]
[[Image:Alexis de tocqueville.jpg|right|thumb|Alexis de Tocqueville]]
'''Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville''' ([[Paris]] 1805 - Cannes 1859) was a [[French]] historian and politician who published an insightful review of the [[United States]] entitled ''Democracy in America'' (1835),<ref>http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/toc_indx.html</ref> based on a nine-month tour of the young country.<ref>Initially de Tocqueville came to America to study her penal (criminal justice) system, but then expanded the scope of his study.</ref> It remains the most comprehensive treatise of early [[America]]n society to this day.
'''Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville''' ([[Paris]] 1805 - Cannes 1859) was a [[French]] historian and politician who published an insightful review of the [[United States]] entitled ''Democracy in America'' (1835),<ref>http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper/DETOC/toc_indx.html</ref> based on a nine-month tour of the young country.<ref>Initially de Tocqueville came to America to study her penal (criminal justice) system, but then expanded the scope of his study.</ref> It remains the most comprehensive treatise of early [[America]]n society to this day.
==French Revolution==
Tocqueville was a staunch opponent of the [[French Revolution]] and later [[Socialist]] doctrines, and noted the similarities between the two. He also noted the similarities in the two ideologies, in particular, their contempt for private property.<ref>The state of society in France before the Revolution of 1789, ch. 18</ref>
==Tocqueville on Christianity==
==Tocqueville on Christianity==
* "Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common - equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude."<ref>[http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-critique-of-socialism-1848 Tocqueville’s Critique of Socialism]</ref>
* "Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common - equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude."<ref>[http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-critique-of-socialism-1848 Tocqueville’s Critique of Socialism]</ref>
== Writings ==
== Works ==
*Democracy in America (1835)
*Democracy in America (1835)
*Souvenirs (1848)
*Souvenirs (1848)
*The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
*The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
*The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789: And the Causes Which Led to That Event (1888)
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[American Revolution]]
*[[American Revolution]]
*[[Enlightenment]]
*[[Enlightenment]]
== References ==
== References ==
:*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-597857/Alexis-de-Tocqueville Tocqueville at Britannica]
:*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-597857/Alexis-de-Tocqueville Tocqueville at Britannica]
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