Goddard, M: History of Norwich, Vermont (Classic Reprint)

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Goddard, M: History of Norwich, Vermont (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of Norwich, Vermont

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. De Tocqueville.

In America the germ of political organization is the Township older than the County, older than the State. In New England we find towns established as independent communities, endowed with distino tive rights and privileges, as early as the middle of the seventeenth century.

It is to these town governments that we must look for the foundation of republican liberty - to the town meeting, where all citizens meet on a plane of equality to choose their local officers and manage their local affairs. Here is the firm basis upon which all free institutions can rest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once proposed that the records of a New England town should be printed and presented to the governments of Europe - to the English nation as a thank-offering and as a certificate of the progress of the Saxon race; to the continental. Nations as a lessen of humanity and love.

De Tocqueville said that the government of a New England town ship was the best specimen of a pure democracy that the world has ever seen.

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