Jacksonian Democracy and Alexis de Tocqueville
Jacksonian Democracy points to both the political party founded under Jackson, the self-proclaimed “American Democracy,” and to the French Alexis de Tocqueville’s book, “Democracy in America.” After Tocqueville’s tour of America during 1831-1832, Tocqueville asserted that America was the paragon of democracy and an egalitarian future while Europe was still stuck in its aristocratic past.