Local Government in Michigan and the Northwest
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Excerpt from Local Government in Michigan and the Northwest: Read Before the American Social Science Association, September 7, 1882 Not long ago, at a college in a neighboring State, a professor proposed for debate, "Resolved, That the New England town-meeting should be abolished." In a class of nearly one hundred, not ten could be found willing to discuss the subject, and only one showed a comprehension of its general bearings, - this in a New England college. So great ignorance, probably, does not prevail among those New England citizens whose duty at the polls has taught them something of the government of their town or city. Yet it is undeniable that few persons have any accurate knowledge of the local political institutions of other parts of the country than their own. For instance, in a recent conversation, a judge of acknowledged reputation for legal wisdom, in a State east of New York, a man even of legislative experience, said he was entirely unacquainted with the county government of the Empire State. A member of the supreme bench of one of the northwestern States confessed to much the same ignorance respecting Ohio. Nor is the reason for this ignorance far to seek. The importance of the subject is hardly yet realized. We seldom value or study what we share with all around us. If money for schools, for roads, or for the poor is raised in the same manner in our town and the next, in our county and beyond, we assume it is so with our State and its neighbor, with the East and the West, with Pennsylvania and Illinois, with New York and Missouri, or, if we learn of a difference, we imagine that ours must be the better. If we go to our libraries for information, we return no wiser than we went. As the old method of writing history was to narrate the exploits of kings and their armies, so the study of politics is still mostly confined to the doings of Reichstag, Parliament, Congress, State Legislatures and Common Councils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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