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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: commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. . . ." *k Here
follow clauses establishing schools in every township, and
obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support
them. Schools of a superior kind were founded in the same manner
in the more populous districts. The municipal authorities were
bound to enforce the sending of children to school by their
parents; they were empowered to inflict fines upon all who
refused compliance; and in case of continued resistance society
assumed the place of the parent, took possession of the child,
and deprived the father of those natural rights which he used to
so bad a purpose. The reader will undoubtedly have remarked the
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