Proper noun
A commune of the Eure department, Normandy, France.
A commune of the Manche department, Normandy, France.
(fully de Tocqueville) A surname from French — famously held by:
François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe most effective censorship is not, in fact, legal; in a democracy-as Tocqueville pointed out in Democracy in America-it is public opinion. Henry Steele Commager
Alexis de Tocqueville also claimed that jury trials educate citizens about self-government. Source: Internet
As Sheldon Wolin puts it, "Tocqueville was aware of the harshness and bigotry of the early colonists". Source: Internet
But rather than a bad thing, this strikes me as a wonderful thing, a return to the world of Tocqueville rather than the regimented national life of the postwar period. Source: Internet
“Alexis de Tocqueville, in his day, observed that democracy in America had become possible and had worked because there existed a fundamental moral consensus which, transcending individual denominations, united everyone. Source: Internet
Given this background, it is understandable that Tocqueville was so surprised to find that Catholic clergy and laity in America numbered among the strongest defenders of America’s commitment to religious liberty. Source: Internet