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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: general assembly of the citizens.
[Footnote e: Code of 1650, p. 80.]
In studying the laws which were promulgated at this first
era of the American republics, it is impossible not to be struck
by the remarkable acquaintance with the science of government and
the advanced theory of legislation which they display. The ideas
there formed of the duties of society towards its members are
evidently much loftier and more comprehensive than those of the
European legislators at that time: obligations were there imposed
which were elsewhere slighted. In the States of New England,
from the first, the condition of the poor was provided for; *f
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