Democracy in America - Conclusion - American Literature.
Tocqueville is known principally for his definitive two-volume study of American politics, Democracy in America (1835, 1840), and for The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856), a historical.
Tocqueville considers the liberty of the press as absolutely necessary in a democracy, but unlimited liberty of association is more dangerous, since it threatens the functioning of the government. That the existence of such a liberty has thus far not damaged America is due to Americans’ longstanding familiarity with the principle, and the way in which it has actually come to work against the.