Most people today think of the United States as a democratic society. This was also the same thought that a man named Alexis De Tocqueville had. Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805 and died April 16, 1859. He was a French diplomat, political scientist, and historian. Tocqueville was best known for one of his works titled Democracy in America. This was published after he traveled through the United States and people today consider it as an early work of sociology and political science which are some of the subjects that Tocqueville studied. Tocqueville wrote this book about the new democratic order that was taking over the United States, but during Tocqueville’s time period referred to as America. It was believed that Tocqueville wrote Democracy
