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In this task, you are given a sentence and question which can be answered using the sentence. Your task is to answer the question using the information from the sentence. The answer to the question is unique and it is a continuous text span from the sentence.

Sentence: Proponents of the above laws maintain that these laws are necessary for the control and monitoring of dangerous individuals that live among the general populace . 
 Question: who   maintains something?
Output:
Proponents of the above laws