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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: allusion to the commercial activity which reigns in the Union, I
was unable to inquire into the future condition of the Americans
as a commercial people.
These topics are collaterally connected with my subject
without forming a part of it; they are American without being
democratic; and to portray democracy has been my principal aim.
It was therefore necessary to postpone these questions, which I
now take up as the proper termination of my work.
The territory now occupied or claimed by the American Union
spreads from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific
Ocean. On the east and west its limits are those of the
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