![]() ![]() Paragraph numbers and subheadings belong to this excerpt, not the original source.)Īs for myself, I do not hesitate to avow that although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is in some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. In the first part of the book, published in 1835, Tocqueville addressed the political history of the United States and its constitutional order. ![]() American Studies at the University of Virginia. His book, Democracy in America, was meant to expose the success of the American political system and way of life to a French audience experiencing the difficult transition to democracy. ![]()
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