Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy In America

In a landmark examination of the American society and culture, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America offered a unique Tocqueville provides a fascinating account of three oppressed ethnic groups in America, the Negroes and the Indians. “these two unlucky races have in common neither birth, appearances, language, nor mores,” In comparatively Outsider’s thought on liberty and its limitations amongst the inhabitants of the United States, particularly in the relations of three races “naturally distinct and hostile to one another”. Though this provocative comparison may initially appear to be vast however his analysis proves that the allegory is outstanding and well-constructed. Moreover, the equality informs a new mode of cooperation
for both the allegorized races and the form of regal government that each represents. He copied a number of and transfer structural and cultural characteristics which share between each system of government and its representative regarding race and grace, and then reveal the more precise and similitude between each race’s psychology and the mental effect each political system . These two levels of allegory, the physical and the psychological, combine to and talks about Negro with democracy and the Indian with aristocracy. Lastly by adopting this allegorical method, to Tocqueville is able to speak and determine and moves beyond report and allegorizes the American Negro and the American Indian to the central properties of democracy of the three races in the new world.