A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
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I would put D.
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I would choose "A" the best even though "C" also makes sense but not as much as "A" does. hope it works. :)
I think it is C but I may be wrong.
