Plymouth was at first governed in primary assembly with a governor and assistants elected by popular vote.
The town-meeting was a primary assembly, at which were transacted all local affairs,--those which came nearest to the individual.
Footnote 1: A primary assembly is one in which the members attend of their own right, without having been elected to it; a representative assembly is composed of elected delegates.
A primary assembly of all the inhabitants of a county, for purposes of local government, is out of the question.
In the former we have direct government by a primary assembly,[1] the town-meeting; in the latter we have indirect government by a representative board.
This was not government by a primary assembly, it was representative government.
The town-moot was a primary assembly of the freemen of the village, by which, under the presidency of a reeve, the affairs of the township were administered.
One comprises those in which the ultimate public powers are vested in a Landesgemeinde, or primary assembly of citizens; the other, those in which such powers have been committed to a body of elected representatives.
When people live near together it is easy for them to attend a town-meeting, and the assembly by which public business is transacted is likely to remain a primary assembly, in the true sense of the term.
The folk-mote, or primary assembly, and the witenagemote, or assembly of notables.
If the settlers of Massachusetts had been ancient Greeks or Romans, this would have been about as far as they could go in the matter; the choice would have been between a primary assembly and an assembly of notables.
This county-meeting is not a primary assembly; all the freemen from all the townships cannot leave their homes and their daily business to attend it.
So rapidly did the colony expand that, by 1639, the holding of a primary assembly in Plymouth town became so inconvenient that delegates had to be chosen.
Until 1634, the general court had been a primary assembly, but in that year representation was introduced and the towns sent deputies, who soon began to complain of the meagerness of their powers.
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