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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: During the war of independence, which lasted eight years, the
population continued to increase without intermission in the same
ratio. Although powerful Indian nations allied with the English
existed at that time upon the western frontiers, the emigration
westward was never checked. Whilst the enemy laid waste the
shores of the Atlantic, Kentucky, the western parts of
Pennsylvania, and the States of Vermont and of Maine were filling
with inhabitants. Nor did the unsettled state of the
Constitution, which succeeded the war, prevent the increase of
the population, or stop its progress across the wilds. Thus, the
difference of laws, the various conditions of peace and war, of
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