Town Government in New Hampshire
Author: Works Progress Administration. New Hampshire Historical Records Survey
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 151
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Author: Works Progress Administration. New Hampshire Historical Records Survey
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 151
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New Hampshire
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard Samuel Morrison
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1541788486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. 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.
Author: New Hampshire. Governor and Council
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 820
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeremy Belknap
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 540
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Institute of public affairs, University of New Hampshire
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New Hampshire. Governor and Council
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 874
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New Hampshire
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 886
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank M. Bryan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0226077985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelying 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.