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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: Americans within certain limits, and checks the passion of
innovation - Opinion of the Americans on the political utility of
religion - Their exertions to extend and secure its predominance.
I have just shown what the direct influence of religion upon
politics is in the United States, but its indirect influence
appears to me to be still more considerable, and it never
instructs the Americans more fully in the art of being free than
when it says nothing of freedom.
The sects which exist in the United States are innumerable.
They all differ in respect to the worship which is due from man
to his Creator, but they all agree in respect to the duties which
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