Democracy in America, in French “De la Démocratie en Amérique”, was first published in 1835, with a second volume in 1840. This classic text written by Alexis de Tocqueville is well known for its analysis of the republican representative democratic regime in the United States. Tocqueville explains the reasons of the success of this regime, and underlines the risk of 'tyranny of the majority', a concept that has marked J. S. Mill a lot in its own intellectual development, and more generally that has marked political sciences. The ‘tyranny of the majority’ becomes the basis for Mill’s book On Liberty.

Source: Pappe, H. O. “Mill and Tocqueville.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 25, no. 2, 1964, pp. 217–234. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2708013. Accessed 21 Feb. 2021.