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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: religious or a free nation. When they return from their
expedition, we shall hear what they have to say.
There are persons in France who look upon republican
institutions as a temporary means of power, of wealth, and
distinction; men who are the condottieri of liberty, and who
fight for their own advantage, whatever be the colors they wear:
it is not to these that I address myself. But there are others
who look forward to the republican form of government as a
tranquil and lasting state, towards which modern society is daily
impelled by the ideas and manners of the time, and who sincerely
desire to prepare men to be free. When these men attack
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