town meetings practiced in many small new england towns are examples of open town meetings.
town meetings practiced in many small new england towns are examples of what?
open town meetings
bullet::::- traditionally, a town's legislative body is the open town meeting, which is a form of direct democratic rule, with a board of selectmen possessing executive authority. only several swiss cantons with landsgemeinde remain as democratic as the small new england town meetings.
new england town
that new england towns serve, in essence, the same function as incorporated places in other states, but are not treated as incorporated places by the census bureau, can be a source of confusion. the census classifications should not be understood to imply that new england towns are not incorporated, or necessarily serve a similar purpose to mcds in other states in terms of governmental function or civic-identity importance. new england towns are classified as mcds not because they are not "incorporated" but rather the data that the census gathers on places is analyzed based on different models (those of compact settled places and open rural places) that is not well represented by the new england town system of organization. in order to better fit their own purposes, the census only counts cities and certain fully urbanized towns as "places" in its categorization. in other towns, those with small built-up central villages, the census designates one or more census-designated places (cdps) and considers all other land to be parts of "minor civil divisions". this classification is done only for the census's own data analysis, and otherwise has no connection to the actual organization or legal status of new england towns.
new england town