Individualism, according to alexis de tocqueville, asserts that citizens were able to flourish without hereditary distinctions. how would this value directly conflict with tocqueville's upbringing?

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in an old Norman aristocratic family, his father was a Count and an officer of the Constitutional Guard of King Louis XVI.

But despite of that, when Tocqueville went to the US he argued that Democracy dissolves the chain that Aristocracy hold together. He also noticed that American democracy made people more equal, the opposite of the Aristocratic system.

Tocqueville was raised in an aristocratic family and that gave him certain privileges he could not have otherwise achieved.

in 476 c.e. romulus, the last of the roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the roman empire had brought to western europe for 1000 years was no more.

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