Author: Marian Card DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
˜Theœ New England Meeting House of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Marian Card DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The New England Meeting Houses of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Marian Card DonnellyPublisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
New England Meeting House and Church: 1630-1850
Author: Dublin Seminar for New England FolklifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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.
The New England Meeting Houses of the 17th Century
Author: Marian Card DonnellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
New England Meeting House and Church, 1630-1850
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Meetinghouse Tragedy
Author: Charles E. ClarkPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The dramatic story of a colonial town's experience of and response to communal catastrophe.
Old-time New England
Author: Society for the Preservation of New England AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Early American Architecture
Author: Hugh MorrisonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486254925
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of domestic and public architecture ranges from primitive cabins to Greek Revival mansions of the early 1800s. Nearly 500 illustrations. "Entertaining, vigorous, and clearly written." ? The New York Times.
Friends in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description