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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: ensure the greatest happiness of the greatest number; and it
serves not only to connect the persons in authority, but to unite
them to a considerable portion of the community, since a numerous
body of citizens belongs to the aristocracy, without being
invested with official functions. The aristocratic magistrate is
therefore constantly supported by a portion of the community, as
well as by the Government of which he is a member.
The common purpose which connects the interest of the
magistrates in aristocracies with that of a portion of their
contemporaries identifies it with that of future generations;
their influence belongs to the future as much as to the present.
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