Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America
             delves deep into how the American States and the federal government would grow
             politically and socially under the umbrella of democracy. He sees the United
             States as a unique entity because of how and why it started as well as its
             De Tocqueville explains that the foundations of the
             democratic process in America are completely different from anywhere else on
             the globe. The land was virginal and the colonies had almost complete sovereignty
             from England from the very beginning because they were separated by an ocean
             and financial troubles. The people who came to America were the oppressed
             and unhappy in England and all were trying to find a place where they could
             start anew and create a political structure that would facilitate an individual
             freedom unlike anything that they had previously experienced in Europe. De
             Tocqueville believed that the nature of democracy in the New World rested within
             the fact that all of the emigrants were basically from the same social strata,
             resulting in the first new country where there was no preliminary basis for
             an aristocracy. "Land is the basis of an aristocracy...and... [in America] when
             the ground was prepared, its produce was found to be insufficient to enrich
             a proprietor and a farmer at the same t
             ime(41)." He saw that even the soil
             of America was opposed to the structure of an aristocracy.
             were also outside influences lending unvoiced support for the creation of this
             new democracy. Being an ocean apart from its mother country, who at this time
             did not have the financial reserves to oversee its colonies, let the Americans
             govern themselves. If they had not had this sovereignty at the beginning America
             might have become something completely different than it is today, but that
             was not the case, so these emigrants now had a fertile place to plant their
             ideas of a country f...