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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: these favorable circumstances, created a weak and subordinate
executive power which could without danger be made elective.
It then only remained for them to choose the least dangerous
of the various modes of election; and the rules which they laid
down upon this point admirably correspond to the securities which
the physical and political constitution of the country already
afforded. Their object was to find the mode of election which
would best express the choice of the people with the least
possible excitement and suspense. It was admitted in the first
place that the simple majority should be decisive; but the
difficulty was to obtain this majority without an interval of
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