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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: The law of entail was so modified as not to interrupt the free
circulation of property. *d The first generation having passed
away, estates began to be parcelled out, and the change became
more and more rapid with the progress of time. At this moment,
after a lapse of a little more than sixty years, the aspect of
society is totally altered; the families of the great landed
proprietors are almost all commingled with the general mass. In
the State of New York, which formerly contained many of these,
there are but two who still keep their heads above the stream,
and they must shortly disappear. The sons of these opulent
citizens are become merchants, lawyers, or physicians. Most of
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