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The township is the lowest in order, then the county, and lastly the State;
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Thus the French Government lends its agents to the commune; in America the township is the agent of the Government.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
But this ceases to be the case as we descend to States in which knowledge is less generally diffused, and where the township consequently offers fewer guarantees of a wise and active administration.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
But to appoint agents in each township would have been to centre in his person the most formidable of powers, that of a judicial administration.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
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