Subject:  American Minute - Apr. 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville & Democracy In America
Date:  Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:07:33 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

April 16

On APRIL 16, 1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died.

After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote Democracy
in America in 1835, which has been described as "the most
comprehensive...analysis of character and society in America ever
written."

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:

"Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the
country was the first thing that struck my attention...

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the
spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I
found they were intimately united."

De Tocqueville continued:

"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so
intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive
the one without the other...

They brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity
which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and
republican religion."

In Book Two of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville wrote:

"Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public
mind in America...In the United States...Christianity itself is a
fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to
attack or to defend it."



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