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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: in order to govern well. I grant that the caprices of democracy
are perpetual; its instruments are rude; its laws imperfect. But
if it were true that soon no just medium would exist between the
empire of democracy and the dominion of a single arm, should we
not rather incline towards the former than submit voluntarily to
the latter? And if complete equality be our fate, is it not
better to be levelled by free institutions than by despotic
power?
Those who, after having read this book, should imagine that
my intention in writing it has been to propose the laws and
manners of the Anglo-Americans for the imitation of all
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