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In current times, democracy is said to be the most just and structured form of government. However, in America's early years, the ideal democracy that the founding fathers sought to create was nothing like what it was meant to be. Alexis de Toqueville, a famous French writer and philosopher came to America and made observations about the young American form of government. While now those observations turned out to be inaccurate, at the time, his …

…book. Democracy, possibly the most invincible form of government in the world today, de Toqueville points out some potential flaws. The analysis de Toqueville gives also had practical benefits. First, it made people wary of what would happen to them if they didn't follow certain guidelines, but second, it caused people to think before jumping onto the democracy bandwagon. In sum, this was an excellent philosophical book that should be read by all young philosophers.