Town meeting democracy, when all partners participate in virtually every significant and many insignificant decisions, is a better theory than reality.
Was Massachusetts Bay a theocracy or the fount of
town meeting democracy?
Not exact matches
They represented on a national scale the concept of a
town -
meeting democracy.
It may not be a Vermont - type
town meeting form of
democracy; it may be too centralized; but what is the alternative?
This turned out to be similar to the
town meeting type of
democracy of early New England and the tradition of representational government has remained strong in Belize.
As many commentators have said, Vermont's
Town Meeting Day is «
democracy being practiced in its purest form.»