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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: In this part of the Union the impulsion of political
activity was given in the townships; and it may almost be said
that each of them originally formed an independent nation. When
the Kings of England asserted their supremacy, they were
contented to assume the central power of the State. The
townships of New England remained as they were before; and
although they are now subject to the State, they were at first
scarcely dependent upon it. It is important to remember that
they have not been invested with privileges, but that they have,
on the contrary, forfeited a portion of their independence to the
State. The townships are only subordinate to the State in those
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