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[[Image:Alexis de tocqueville.jpg|right|thumb|Alexis de Tocqueville]]
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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 [[America]]n society to this day.
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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 [[America]]n society to this day.