Classify French historian Alexis de Tocqueville

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Writer of the seminal book Democracy in America.
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Atlantid.

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Atlantid

[Samnium]

Atlantid with some med, anyway one of the greatest political theorists of the 19th century.

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Dinaro-Alpine.

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Atlanto-Med.

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Atlanto-Med.

According to him, "in the United States, more than anywhere else, people believe strongly in the right to private judgement, yet in no other place is there less independence of thought." (My emphasis).

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According to him, "in the United States, more than anywhere else, people believe strongly in the right to private judgement, yet in no other place is there less independence of thought." (My emphasis).

A curious "tyranny of the majority" in the realm of ideas, if there is any.

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A curious "tyranny of the majority" in the realm of ideas, if there is any.

Exactly. As De Tocqueville explained, whereas more traditional societies usually rely on either brute force or traditional leaders such as priests, imams and tribal chiefs to control what people say and think, the US does it through collective public opinion.

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Atlantid

[Odelia]

Looked like a gothic lesbo who drinks coffee and pats her cats all day long.