Which selection from the article BEST supports the idea that local governments perform important functions? (A) This creates a multitude of government "laboratories," where leaders at any level could see which
systems were successful and which were not.
(B)
Most states have two types of courts: trial courts that handle issues from traffic fines to divorce
settlements to murder, and appeals courts that hear cases appealed from lower courts.
(C)
Among other duties they keep the peace, maintain jails, collect taxes, build and repair roads and
bridges, and record deeds, marriages and deaths.
Townships do not exist in about half the states, and they have different responsibilities in those that
have them
(D)