Part two

The Origins of De Tocqueville’s claims come from his reasons for writing Democracy in America. Alexis De Tocqueville was born in France in the early 1800’s. A prominent politician in his later years, De Tocqueville wrote of American Democracy when he was young and still observing the world. With discontent for the French political system and distaste for the way the aristocracy ruled France, Alexis De Tocqueville traveled to America and observed how America goes about its democratic ways. He compares this to France and France’s system, where often in the book he discusses issues like freedom before equality and the tyranny of the majority or minority. Being French, De Tocqueville obviously wrote this work to show France another working model to replace or modify the French Aristocracy. Democracy in America also has an international audience, displaying proudly or not to the rest of the world the behaviors of Americans and how their system does or does not work so well. America should also be mentioned as perhaps an unintended audience, where they see their democracy at work through the lens of an outsider. All of these audiences add to why De Tocqueville wrote this great work and help support his claims made about American democracy.