Much can still be learned in Tocqueville's writing. He was a moderate liberal, which is different today then this title was in Tocqueville's day. He was for small government, equality, and liberty. He feared the "tyranny of the majority," which he felt would destroy the freedoms of the people. His work, Democracy in America was not to measure the mastery of United States but to look how France could learn from the emerging democracy that was sweeping the west. It is my goal to learn more about this man and even read this book, Democracy ....