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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: England protect their own private interests; and the municipal
magistrates are the persons to whom the execution of the laws of
the State is most frequently entrusted. *i Besides the general
laws, the State sometimes passes general police regulations; but
more commonly the townships and town officers, conjointly with
justices of the peace, regulate the minor details of social life,
according to the necessities of the different localities, and
promulgate such enactments as concern the health of the
community, and the peace as well as morality of the citizens. *j
Lastly, these municipal magistrates provide, of their own accord
and without any delegated powers, for those unforeseen
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