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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: be shown that this second system is not at all less defective
than the first. If I attempt to compare the French budget with
the budget of the Union, it must be remembered that the latter
embraces much fewer objects than then central Government of the
former country, and that the expenditure must consequently be
much smaller. If I contrast the budgets of the Departments with
those of the States which constitute the Union, it must be
observed that, as the power and control exercised by the States
is much greater than that which is exercised by the Departments,
their expenditure is also more considerable. As for the budgets
of the counties, nothing of the kind occurs in the French system
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