 | Ebe Minerva White - Citizenship - 1921 - 136 pages
...remark that— Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 946 pages
...Toqueville's opinion that "local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it"(v). The principle of election to... | |
 | Lamar Taney Beman - Municipal government - 1923 - 562 pages
...England. He regarded them as the real foundation of American liberty. "Assemblies of citizens," he says, "constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal...primary schools are to science, they bring it within the people's reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
 | Khushal Talaksi Shah, Gulestan Jamshedji Bahadurji - India - 1925 - 686 pages
...nevertheless equally important, at least to us in India. "Municipal Institutions." says De Tocqueville,* "are to liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within the people's reach; they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
 | Rufino Luna - Municipal government - 1926 - 368 pages
...Tocqueville said : 8 "Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
 | Rufino Luna - Municipal government - 1926 - 364 pages
...Tocqueville said : 8 "Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system... | |
 | Law - 1924 - 440 pages
...decentralized system of local self-government as quoted from De Tocqueville's Democracy in America : ' ' Local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength...liberty what primary schools are to science ; they brin? it within the people's reach; they tewh men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - City and town life - 1927 - 710 pages
...Tocqueville pointed out that "local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations," and that "Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach ; they teach man how to use it and how to enjoy it." * And Professor Munro, quoting... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 288 pages
...discussed as at Athens, in the market place, by the General Assembly, of the citizens." And again he says: "Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1925 - 276 pages
...refers with great approbation to the government of the towns and of the town meetings which he says, "are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach. They teach men how to use it and how to enjoy it." He recognized what many people... | |
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Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... 
