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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: country to aid their cause; and they assert that the bank
directors form a permanent aristocratic body, whose influence
must ultimately be felt in the Government, and must affect those
principles of equality upon which society rests in America.
The contest between the bank and its opponents is only an
incident in the great struggle which is going on in America
between the provinces and the central power; between the spirit
of democratic independence and the spirit of gradation and
subordination. I do not mean that the enemies of the bank are
identically the same individuals who, on other points, attack the
Federal Government; but I assert that the attacks directed
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