In present-day New England, especially the state of Vermont, there is now a festering underbelly of disenchantment of the body politic, known as the Town Meeting. Once the Town Meeting reflected this historical summation of how Alexis De Tocqueville saw New England after the first American Revolution, when he wrote so enthusiastically, perhaps even naively, in his 1835-1840 classic work, Democracy in America: "The New Englander is attached to his town not so much because he was born there as because he sees the town as a free and powerful corporation of which he is a part and which is worth his trouble to seek to direct.”
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