nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/aad8357050466817 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250512s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/aad8357050466817 doi eng 342 23 Rehling Larsen, Signe Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5957-0126 Glancing Beyond Europe Rehling Larsen, Signe Verfassungsblog 2025-05-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 9 May 1831, a young French aristocrat trained as lawyer arrived in Rhode Island for a nine-months visit to the United States. Officially tasked by the French government with studying the American prison system, his ambition and desire for political and literary fame propelled him to conduct a much broader study of the character of the American Republic. Based on his observations, the young lawyer wrote Democracy in America; a book that holds as much insight about the European Union today as it did about the early American Republic back then. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU European Union comparative federalism democracy sovereignty (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/tocqueville-federalism-eu/ raw object