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8944. WARDS, Vital principle.—

These
wards, called townships in New England, are
the vital principles of their governments, and
have proved themselves the wisest invention
ever devised by the wit of man for the
perfect exercise of self-government, and for
its preservation.—
To Samuel Kerchival. Washington ed. vii, 13. Ford ed., x, 41.
(M. 1816)

See Counties.