Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th century liberal who observed the paradoxes of a world that had undergone vast change in a short period of time. Born in 1805 in France, Tocqueville belonged to an aristocratic family and rose to prominence in French society as a Judge and a political theorist. In 1831, Tocqueville left France to study the penitentiary system of the United States of America. Tocqueville viewed the democratic society of the United States with the skeptical eye of an aristocrat and...