American exceptionalism

When American Exceptionalism is a theory according to which the United States occupy a special position within the developed industrial nations. All subsystems of American society - such as constitution, politics, economics, law, social system, religion, nature and the cross-societal system of values ​​( ideology ) - could be thus explained only by the United States -specific factors that would result from the particular history of the country. The late settlement by European immigrants, whose political, economic, and religious self-liberation from colonialism (American Revolution), the ( shared with France) status as a pioneering nation in the modern, secular democracy, with the slavery and its subsequent abolition related socio-historical developments and the fact that on U.S. soil since the Civil War has been no more war, American society had so strongly impressed, that a comparison with the Western European societies through cross, so general criteria and theories must remain barren. The still widely rezipierte America study De la démocratie en Amérique ( two volumes, Paris 1835/1840 ) of the politician and journalist Alexis de Tocqueville is the basis of the theory of American exceptionalism.