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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 War of Independence was terminated, and the foundations of
the new Government were to be laid down, the nation was divided
between two opinions - two opinions which are as old as the
world, and which are perpetually to be met with under all the
forms and all the names which have ever obtained in free
communities - the one tending to limit, the other to extend
indefinitely, the power of the people. The conflict of these two
opinions never assumed that degree of violence in America which
it has frequently displayed elsewhere. Both parties of the
Americans were, in fact, agreed upon the most essential points;
and neither of them had to destroy a traditionary constitution,
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