|  | Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (06/12/2000)
 In 1831, the French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the 
 United States of America, a nation in which the citizenry had rejected such 
 things as income taxation, welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, 
 public schooling, drug wars, economic regulations, gun control, and 
 immigration controls.
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