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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: upon the central power the same rights of making peace and war,
of raising money and troops, and of providing for the general
exigencies and the common interests of the nation. Nevertheless
the Federal Government of these different peoples has always been
as remarkable for its weakness and inefficiency as that of the
Union is for its vigorous and enterprising spirit. Again, the
first American Confederation perished through the excessive
weakness of its Government; and this weak Government was,
notwithstanding, in possession of rights even more extensive than
those of the Federal Government of the present day. But the more
recent Constitution of the United States contains certain
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