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1) define the term town meeting and name which region of the united states that town meetings are most commonly held.
2) what is the job of a coroner? ?

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A town meeting is the purest form of democratic governing. It is a place where citizens can voice their opinions for changes in their communities. The town meeting is where the salaries are set for the city officials, it votes to appropriate money to run the town and votes on the town's by-laws. The town meetings were begun in New England but are also held in the South. Generally, the town will have 12,000 or less people otherwise it can be classified as a city.

The coroner's job is to perform autopsies to answer questions of cause of death, to run tests to fix responsibility for cause of death. They run pathological and toxicological tests to eliminate causes or prove causes of death. They are involved in inquests to certain deaths.

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b) a state law could be declared illegal if it contradicted the constitution.

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the conflict of this case originated when james w. mcculloch, a cashier of the baltimore branch of the second bank of the united states that the congress had chartered in 1816, refused to pay a tax imposed by the maryland state.

in the case, the state of maryland appealed that the establishment of a second bank was unconstitutional since the constitution didn't say anything about granting that power to congress. however, the case determined that even if such right wasn't specifically stated in the constitution, it was part of the "implied powers" of the government enunciated in article i, section 8.

the case also eliminated maryland's legislation to impose taxes to a national bank, asserting that even though the states retained the power of taxation, the constitution's laws are supreme and can not be controlled by the states, therefore, if a state law contradicts the constitution, it should be declared illegal.

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The supreme court case mcculloch v. maryland ensured that?

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