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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: instability is always followed by troubles and revolutions, and
the nation which suffers under it is in a state of violent
transition.
Experience shows that these two kinds of legislative
instability have no necessary connection; for they have been
found united or separate, according to times and circumstances.
The first is common in the United States, but not the second: the
Americans often change their laws, but the foundation of the
Constitution is respected.
In our days the republican principle rules in America, as
the monarchical principle did in France under Louis XIV. The
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