There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". ... In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the political into democracy - etymologically translated to 'the rule of the people' – and materia...

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