... who came to America and published the writing Democracy in America. This text is a two-volume study of American people and their institutions. Tocqueville is a philosopher who looked to culture and institutions shaped by culture as the keys to understanding political and social worlds. His major break through is the distinction between political power and social power. Democracy on America deals with issues like religion, press, money, class structure, role of government. These issues that are still as relevant today as they were then. Tocqueville, similarly to Burke, sees destructive aspects to a political regime focused on theoretical equality. What disgusted Burke the most was the metaphysical: the belief that political outcome should be guided by the theoretical doctrine, universal principle, and appeals to abstract rights. Burke rejects the fundamental properties of equality because of its abstractness. The notion of equality has no conceptual meaning; therefore it is ...

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