Alexis De Tocqueville, French aristocrat, scientist, historian, and politician was best known for Democracy in America (1835-1840), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century.

When, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to study democracy in America, the trial of nearly a half-century of the working of our system had been made, and it had been proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever witnessed.

De Tocquville's study was motivated not by political scholarship, however but instead by an intense love of France, and the desire to search out and test the basic principles of free government embodied in our Constitution, and to secure for the people of France the blessings that democracy had ordained and established in America. His insights into the American system of government, and more importantly into the heart of America, have remained to this day an articulate and inspired commentary on the true doctrines of American government that emanated from our nation from its earliest age.

Christianity, which has declared that all men are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law.

"Their [America's] ancestors gave them the love of equality and of freedom, but God himself gave them the means of remaining equal and free, by placing them upon a boundless continent, which is open to their exertions."