Editing Primogeniture (section)

===Arguments against===
{{Original research section|date=March 2019}}
In ''[[Democracy in America]]'', [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] observes that abolition of primogeniture and [[fee tail|entail]] as to property results in faster division of land.<ref name=dt>{{cite book | last = de Tocqueville | first = Alexis| title = Democracy in America |year = 1835 | chapter = 3-The Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans| title-link = Democracy in America}}</ref> However, primogeniture, in forcing landless people to seek wealth outside the family estate to maintain their [[standard of living]] accelerated the death of the landed [[aristocracy]] and, in his view, thus, quickened the shift to [[democracy]].<ref name=dt/>