 | Wisconsin. Tax Commission - 1899 - 332 sivua
...present system, and of which Thomas Jefferson once said : ''These wards called townships in New England, have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...exercise of self-government and for its preservation."' While the township plan met with great favor in the New England colonies, it did not seem to be so... | |
 | Joseph Lanman - 1899 - 34 sivua
...England town meetings, which are Teutonic mark-moots transplanted to America, Jefferson said, "They have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." Thirdly, another duty of the mark- moot was to choose competent men to attend the hundred -moot. This... | |
 | Wisconsin. Tax Commission - 1899 - 324 sivua
...present system, and of which Thomas Jefferson once said : "These wards called townships in New England, have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." While the township plan met with great favor in the New England colonies, it did not seem to be so... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 sivua
...— To JOSEPH C. CABELL. vi, 544. (M., 1816.) 1858. . These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and...exercise of selfgovernment, and for its preservation. — To SAMUEL KERCHIVAL. vii, 13. FORD ED., x, 41 (M., 1816.) 1859. COUNTIES, The State and.— A county... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 sivua
...the matters of common interest to the whole country. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and...exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, i, the general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 sivua
...the matters of common interest to the whole country. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and...exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1, the general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1900 - 758 sivua
...desired to see the system transplanted to his own Virginia : "Those wards called townships in New England are the vital principle of their governments, and...invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exorcise of self-government, and for its preservation. . . . As Cuto then concluded every speech with... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - 1900 - 132 sivua
...emphasizes the truth' of the remark of Jefferson on the New England towns and their town meetings: They "have proved themselves the wisest invention ever...man for the perfect exercise of self-government." Selfgovernment is true democracy, and is the result of centuries of toil. To safeguard their rights... | |
 | John Fiske - 1900 - 532 sivua
...the vital principle of opinion of 1 township their governments, and have proved themselves govemthe wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.t ... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words Carthago dclenda cst, so do... | |
 | Frank Parsons - 1900 - 194 sivua
...ample provision made for the education of children.1 Thomas Jefferson referred to the town-meeting as "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the per* In other places the thot occurred and was acted upon. In the seventeenth century the fundamental... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. 
