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'''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 American 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 American society to this day.

==Tocqueville on Christianity==

==Tocqueville on Christianity==

De Tocqueville further wrote:  

De Tocqueville further wrote:  

{{cquote|The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other ....  They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion.}}

{{cquote|The Americans combine the notions of [[Christianity]] and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other ....  They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion.}}

He published a second volume of ''Democracy in America'' in 1840, in which he described:  

He published a second volume of ''Democracy in America'' in 1840, in which he described: