A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding
The New England town meeting has often been seen as the archetypical deliberative citizen forum (see, e.g., Mansbridge 1980). More recently, political theorists have begun to appreciate the way in which any particular public forum might be better understood as part of the larger deliberative system...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Westminster Press
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Deliberative Democracy |
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| Online Access: | https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/607/ |