What do you regard as the best features of town government?
3. Is there any tendency anywhere to divide towns into smaller towns? If
it exists, illustrate and explain it.
4. Is there any tendency anywhere to unite towns into larger towns or
into cities? If it exists, illustrate and explain it.
5. In every town-meeting there are leaders,--usually men of character,
ability, and means. Do you understand that these men practically have
their own way in town affairs,--that the voters as a whole do but little
more than fall in with the wishes and plans of their leaders? Or is
there considerable independence in thought and action on the side of the
voters?
6. Can a town do what it pleases, or is it limited in its action? If
limited, by whom or by what is it restricted, and where are the
restrictions recorded? (Consult the Statutes.)
7. Why should the majority rule in town-meeting? Suggest, if possible, a
better way.
8. Is it, on the whole, wise that the vote of the poor man shall count
as much as that of the rich, the vote of the ignorant as much as that of
the intelligent, the vote of the unprincipled as much as that of the
high-toned?
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