Just read her book...
Tocqueville said that three things—American customs (particularly our religious heritage), law (particularly our commitment to federalism, or states’ rights), and geography combined to make “the position of the Americans…quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one..”
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Tocqueville’s vision of an exceptional system of government combining with an exceptional people to produce an exceptional country is echoed in the writings of American scholars today. Sociologist Charles Murray explains…
You and I both know there is no way on God's green Earth that Sarah Palin has enough familiartiy with Alexis de Tocqueville -- if she knows who he is at all -- to be quoting him in her book. It's just not possible, and I call bullshit.
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