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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: circumstances which rendered that system practicable, as its
benefits are not to be enjoyed by all nations. The incidental
defects of the Federal system which originate in the laws may be
corrected by the skill of the legislator, but there are further
evils inherent in the system which cannot be counteracted by the
peoples which adopt it. These nations must therefore find the
strength necessary to support the natural imperfections of their
Government.
The most prominent evil of all Federal systems is the very
complex nature of the means they employ. Two sovereignties are
necessarily in presence of each other. The legislator may
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