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A French liberal thinker, Tocqueville studied American democracy and championed civil associations, decentralization, and political freedom as antidotes to the tyranny of the majority and the administrative centralization of the modern state.
Political axes
Alexis de Tocqueville leans further toward federal than 90% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Alexis de Tocqueville stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, Alexis de Tocqueville sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Current created by Henry George proposing to fund society with a single tax on land value, holding that land rent belongs to everyone and that labor and capital should not be taxed.
Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical Left26%
An American economist, Henry George proposed the single tax on land value, arguing that land rent should fund society and reduce inequality rather than burdening labor or capital.
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A pioneering modern merchant republic, the United Provinces were a confederation governed by a commercial oligarchy, marked by religious tolerance, free trade, and immense naval and financial power at their height.
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