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Article (grammar)
An article (with the linguistic glossing abbreviation) is a word that is used with a noun (as a standalone word or a prefix or suffix) to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope.
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Bahá'í administration
The Bahá'í administration or Bahá'í administrative order is the administrative system of the Bahá'í Faith.
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Bahá'í Faith
The Bahá'í Faith (بهائی) is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity and equality of all people.
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Basque Country (greater region)
The Basque Country (Euskal Herria; Pays basque; Vasconia, País Vasco) is the name given to the home of the Basque people.
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Biscay
Biscay (Bizkaia; Vizcaya) is a province of Spain located just south of the Bay of Biscay.
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Board of Finance (New England)
The Board of Finance is one of a variety of names (Budget Committee, Finance Committee, Ways and Means Committee, Appropriations Committee, Advisory Committee, or Warrant Committee are used in different parts of New England) for a body that reviews local government budgets in towns or school districts that have the town meeting form of government.
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Board of selectmen
The board of selectmen is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States.
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Camden, Maine
Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.
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Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland (Kanton, canton, cantone, chantun) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.
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City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.
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Civil township
A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county.
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Congregationalist polity
Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous".
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Consolidated Laws of New York
The Consolidated Laws of the State of New York are the codification of the permanent laws of a general nature of New York enacted by the New York State Legislature.
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Constable
A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in criminal law enforcement.
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Constitution of Massachusetts
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America.
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Council–manager government
The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.
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Direct democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
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District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by local government.
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Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
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Executive (government)
The executive is the organ exercising authority in and holding responsibility for the governance of a state.
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Fiscal year
A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is the period used by governments for accounting and budget purposes, which vary between countries.
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Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Freedom of Speech (painting)
Freedom of Speech is the first of the Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell that were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms, which he delivered on January 6, 1941.
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Freetown, Massachusetts
Freetown is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
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Home rule
Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
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Iurreta
Iurreta is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.
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Lakeville, Massachusetts
Lakeville is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Landsgemeinde
The Landsgemeinde or "cantonal assembly" is a public, non-secret ballot voting system operating by majority rule, which constitutes one of the oldest forms of direct democracy.
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Laws of New York
Laws of the State of New York is the annual periodical containing the session laws of the New York State Legislature, i.e., "chapter laws", bills that become law (bearing the governor's signature or just certifications of passage) which have been assigned a chapter number in the office of the legislative secretary to the governor, and printed in chronological order (by chapter number).
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Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.
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License
A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
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Local government
A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.
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Maine
Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
The Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (secretary of state) is the principal public information officer of the state government of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Meeting
In a meeting, two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal setting.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.
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Moderator (town official)
A moderator is an official of an incorporated town who presides over the town meeting, and in some cases, other municipal meetings.
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Municipal charter
A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town.
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Municipal clerk
A clerk is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world.
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Municipal corporation
A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.
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Municipalities of Switzerland
Municipalities (Gemeinden, Einwohnergemeinden or politische Gemeinden; communes; comuni; vischnancas) are the lowest level of administrative division in Switzerland.
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Municipality
A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New England town
The New England town (generally referred to simply as a town in New England) is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in each of the six New England states and without a direct counterpart in most other U.S. states.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Nineteen Day Feast
Nineteen Day Feasts are regular community gatherings, occurring on the first day of each month of the Bahá'í calendar (and are often nineteen days apart from each other).
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Policy
A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.
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Precinct
A precinct is a space enclosed by the walls or other boundaries of a particular place or building, or by an arbitrary and imaginary line drawn around it.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
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Referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.
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Representative town meeting
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont, and permitted in Maine and New Hampshire.
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School district
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.
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Secret ballot
The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum is anonymous, forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying.
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Secretary of State of Vermont
The Office of the Secretary of State of Vermont is located at 128 State Street.
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South Burlington, Vermont
South Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Special legislation
Special legislation is a legal term of art used in the United States which refers to acts of a state legislature which apply only to part of a class—a particular person, thing, or locale within a given class.
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Style (manner of address)
A style of office or honorific is an official or legally recognized title.
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Tax collector
A tax collector or a taxman is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations.
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Town council
A town council, village council or rural council is a form of local government for small municipalities.
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Town hall meeting
Town hall meetings, also referred to as town halls or town hall forums, are a way for local and national politicians to meet with their constituents, either to hear from them on topics of interest or to discuss specific upcoming legislation or regulation.
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Town meeting
A town meeting is a form of direct democratic rule, used primarily in portions of the United States – principally in New England – since the 17th century, in which most or all the members of a community come together to legislate policy and budgets for local government.
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Treasurer
A treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury of an organization.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public research university in the University System of New Hampshire, in the United States.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Voter registration
Voter registration (or enrollment) is the requirement that a person otherwise eligible to vote register (or enroll) on an electoral roll before they will be entitled or permitted to vote.
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Warrant (town meeting)
In New England, a warrant is a document issued by the Board of Selectmen to call a town meeting.
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William F. Galvin
William Francis Galvin (born) is the 27th and current Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (Massachusetts's Secretary of State).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting
