Question

Alexis de Tocqueville believed that the United States benefitted from not having a history of what social system?

Answer 1

de Tocqueville, who wrote "Democracy in America," found that it was likely a help that the US did not have a history of monarchy or noble titles at its beginning. This, he felt, shaped the policies of the country more toward equality (as it was at the time) than toward benefiting the upper-classes.