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"A house divided can not last long. I believe this government can not be to keeping a half slave and half free permanently .. "

TWO AMERICAN No visitor to the United States who left the travel notes and observations with more enduring than the writer and political theorist of French origin, alezis de Tocqueville. His book, Democracy in America, published in 1935, remains the most incisive analysis and deep understanding of practices and political sopsial mengenaik American political and social practices. Tocqueville was too astute observer not to criticize the United States, but basically positive conclusion. "Government propagating democracy political rights to all citizens of the lowest layer." He writes, "as well as the spread of wealth led to the idea of ownership can be affordable by all human beings." Nevertheless. Tocqueville is only one of a long line of thinkers concerned with what sort of equality it can survive in the face of a growing industry systems that threaten to create separation between workers with new business elite. The other diners looked amazed growth and vitality of the country, where they can see the "clear evidence of prosperity and rapid progress in the field of agriculture, trade and public works great everywhere." But such an optimistic view of the American experiment is not means approved by everyone. One of those who doubt the British novelist Charles Dickens, who first come to America Tuft in 1841-42. "This bukanlag Republic wants to see." He wrote in the shadow ... the more I imagined youth and strength, this republic looks increasingly worse and more underestimated in thousands of ways. In everything that proud-exempt education to the community, and care for poor children - this republic was far below levels previously thought. " Dickens was not alone. America in the 19th century, as throughout history, evoking hope and desire that often collide with reality is more prosaic complex. The size and diversity of the new State was difficult generalization and invited contradiction: the American society that loves freedom and applying slavery, the State with an expansive border areas and primitive, society with cities built on commerce and industialisasi are growing rapidly.