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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| description | 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 (Parkinson, Mansbridge, 2012). Much of this work draws on modern-day examples (Parkinson 2006). But a return to the American founding era reveals that while town meetings are often praised and have many democratic virtues, they also embody a limitation on popular action generally and especially on democratic dissent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7db2332e94e450bb95277047f6eb6272022-12-22T04:17:13ZengUniversity of Westminster PressJournal of Deliberative Democracy2634-04882019-12-0115210.16997/jdd.335A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American FoundingRobert W. T. Martin0 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 (Parkinson, Mansbridge, 2012). Much of this work draws on modern-day examples (Parkinson 2006). But a return to the American founding era reveals that while town meetings are often praised and have many democratic virtues, they also embody a limitation on popular action generally and especially on democratic dissent.https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/607/American FoundingJames Madisondissentcitizen assembliestown meetingsdeliberative democracy |
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| title | A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding |
| title_full | A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding |
| title_fullStr | A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding |
| title_full_unstemmed | A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding |
| title_short | A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding |
| title_sort | peaceable and orderly manner town meetings and other popular assemblies in the american founding |
| topic | American Founding James Madison dissent citizen assemblies town meetings deliberative democracy |
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