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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: sect. 1. Section 9; chap. III. Section 3.]
[Footnote r: Thus, for example, a stranger arrives in a township
from a country where a contagious disease prevails, and he falls
ill. Two justices of the peace can, with the assent of the
selectmen, order the sheriff of the county to remove and take
care of him. - Act of June 22, 1797, vol. i. p. 540.
In general the justices interfere in all the important acts
of the administration, and give them a semi-judicial character.]
[Footnote s: I say the greater number, because certain
administrative misdemeanors are brought before ordinary
tribunals. If, for instance, a township refuses to make the
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