Author: Jacob J. MulterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Farmers' Law Book and Town Officers' Guide
Author: Jacob J. MulterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Town Officers of Lexington, Massachusetts ...
Author: Annual Report of the Town Officers of Rockland
Author: Rockland (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockland (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Statutes Relating to Elections, Other Than for Militia and Town Officers
Author: New York (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Laws of Wisconsin Concerning the Organization and Government of Towns
Author: Elijah Middlebrook HainesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The New England Town Meeting
Author: Joseph F. ZimmermanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313003637
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
A Compilation of the Laws of Illinois
Author: Elijah Middlebrook HainesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368862308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Annual Report of the Town Officers of Fitzwilliam, N. H., for the Year Ending March 1, 1876
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385514444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Laws of the State of New York
Author: New York (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Illinois
Author: Elijah Middlebrook HainesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description