ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE is the political scientist and author of Democracy in America that believed that the delegation of government to the states was one of the strong points of the American system.
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French thinker, jurist, politician and historian, precursor of classical sociology and one of the most important ideologists of liberalism.
Tocqueville is known for his works Democracy in America, which had two volumes - the first in 1835 and the second in 1840 - and by The Old Regime and the Revolution, published in 1856.
He had an active participation in French politics of the nineteenth century, during the July Monarchy between 1830 and 1848, and then in the period known as the Second French Republic, between 1849 and 1851, which happened after the French Revolution of 1848. Later he would begin to work on his work The Ancient Regime and the Revolution.
He was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government and was skeptical about the extremes of democracy. He died in 1859, as a result of tuberculosis, that had been afflicting him for a long time.
