1. As Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago, in America, nearly all important issues ultimately become judicial questions.

2. A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct species of mankind."

3. AMERICA is the country, said Alexis de Tocqueville, where the bonds of marriage are most respected and the concept of connubial bliss "has its highest and truest expression.

4. Alexis de Tocqueville offered an original explanation on the cause of the French revolution in terms of historical sociology.

5. Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French chronicler of early America, was once misquoted as having said: "America is the best country in the world to be poor."

6. Antielitism is a cancer waiting to metastasize in any democracy and one that Alexis de Tocqueville worried about for the U.S.

7. As a prominent political thinker and historian in nineteenth—century France, Alexis de Tocqueville has been extensively studied internationally in diverse research fields after the Second World War.