Deliberative Democracy in the Context of Town Meetings in Seventeenth-Century New England

From Alexis de Tocqueville onward, the seventeenth-century New England town has been associated with political and social practices that nurtured the making of a “democratic” society. Myth or reality? And where does the religion of the English people who founded the New England colonies figure in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David D. Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Westminster Press 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Deliberative Democracy
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Online Access:https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/604/