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During his visit to the USA in 1831, French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville was moved to wonder whether much of the political agitation in Europe should be blamed on the parlous state of family life there. At any rate, he felt sure that the steady and respectable manner of American home life fostered a corresponding stability in their government.

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