Some restrictions on slaves were that they were not allowed to vote and work for themselves (unless they bought themselves their freedom)
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political theorist and sociologist whose maybe the most famous work was about America, created during his travels there called the "Democracy in America". He also believed that there is a strong democratic culture in the US due to the tendency of US citizens to join together and form groups.
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