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'''Democracy in America''' is a 305,000-word, two volume analysis of life in the [[United States]] by the [[Frenchman]] Alexis de Toqueville, as published in 1835.  It is based on his extensive travels throughout America in the first part of the 19th century.
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'''Democracy in America''' is a 305,000-word, two-volume brilliant analysis of life in the [[United States]] by the [[Frenchman]] Alexis de Toqueville, as published in [[London]] in 1835.  It is based on his extensive travels throughout America in the first part of the 19th century.
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This work is in the [[public domain]] and freely available today.<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm</ref>
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This work is in the [[public domain]] and freely available today.<ref name="G">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm</ref>
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A typical excerpt from this work explains:
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{{cquote|I do not question that the great austerity of manners which is observable in the United States, arises, in the first instance, from religious faith. Religion is often unable to restrain man from the numberless temptations of fortune; nor can it check that passion for gain which every incident of his life contributes to arouse, but its influence over the mind of woman is supreme, and women are the protectors of morals. There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is so much respected as in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated. In Europe almost all the disturbances of society arise from the irregularities of domestic life.<ref name="G"/>}}
 
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