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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: Of The Republican Institutions Of The United States, And What
Their Chances Of Duration Are
The Union is accidental - The Republican institutions have more
prospect of permanence - A republic for the present the natural
state of the Anglo-Americans - Reason of this - In order to
destroy it, all the laws must be changed at the same time, and a
great alteration take place in manners -Difficulties experienced
by the Americans in creating an aristocracy.
The dismemberment of the Union, by the introduction of war
into the heart of those States which are now confederate, with
standing armies, a dictatorship, and a heavy taxation, might,
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