Town Government in New Hampshire
Author : Works Progress Administration. New Hampshire Historical Records Survey
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Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Works Progress Administration. New Hampshire Historical Records Survey
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Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New Hampshire
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Local government
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Author : Leonard Samuel Morrison
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1922
Category : New Hampshire
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"This little book had been prepared to meet the needs of the classes in civics in our New Hampshire schools and of the many citizens who desire more definite knowledge of New Hampshire government"--Preface
Author : New Hampshire. Governor and Council
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Page : 820 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Land grants
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Institute of public affairs, University of New Hampshire
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Local government
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Author : New Hampshire. Governor and Council
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Land grants
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Author : Jeremy Belknap
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1862
Category : New Hampshire
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Author : Frank M. Bryan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226077985
Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Author : Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541788497
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon spread into the neighboring woods. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. And it all caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.