According to Tocqueville, what motivated the ordinary American to participate in public life

According to Tocqueville, Americans were motivated to participate in public fortune because of their greed.

Explanation:

Alexis de Tocqueville is a French Historian who wrote a book titled 'Democracy in America' after traveling for nine months in America in 1831. In his book he wrote about his observation in America.

He wrote that the ordinary people participated in affairs of public fortune because of their greed. He stated that ordinary people in America understood the benefits of using general prosperity for their own benefits. Thus they participate in public life because of their greed.

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the civil war was a fulfillment and completion of the constitution, not a revolution against it. changes in culture and society surely affected political life. lincoln hoped to bring the north and south together after the war by healing the nationand making people lose their resentment.

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