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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: suffrages of a great people; and this difficulty is enhanced in a
republic of confederate States, where local influences are apt to
preponderate. The means by which it was proposed to obviate this
second obstacle was to delegate the electoral powers of the
nation to a body of representatives. This mode of election
rendered a majority more probable; for the fewer the electors
are, the greater is the chance of their coming to a final
decision. It also offered an additional probability of a
judicious choice. It then remained to be decided whether this
right of election was to be entrusted to a legislative body, the
habitual representative assembly of the nation, or whether an
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