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Author: Massachusetts Bar Association
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Massachusetts Bar Association
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Arthur Lord
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021908919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book explores the topic of representative town meetings in Massachusetts. Arthur Lord, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, gives an address on the subject during the association's annual meeting in 1918. The book also includes a discussion that followed the address. It provides insights into the workings of local government in Massachusetts and the history of the state's town meeting system. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Author: Laurence L. Barber (jr.)
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Languages : en
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Author: Joseph Francis Zimmerman
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: Austin De Wolf
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313003637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups. Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Author: Charles Francis Adams
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Massachusetts
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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