How we are governed in Tennessee and the nation . e NewEngland settlers. The people who settled New England came over to thiscountry largely that they might enjoy religious came, therefore, in congregations or groups ratherthan as individual adventurers. The climate and the geo-graphy of New England, unlike Tennessee, did not permitthem to separate and settle on large estates. They builttheir homes close around the church and such circumstances it was natural for them to adopta popular or democratic form of government. All the in-habitants of each community met t
How we are governed in Tennessee and the nation . e NewEngland settlers. The people who settled New England came over to thiscountry largely that they might enjoy religious came, therefore, in congregations or groups ratherthan as individual adventurers. The climate and the geo-graphy of New England, unlike Tennessee, did not permitthem to separate and settle on large estates. They builttheir homes close around the church and such circumstances it was natural for them to adopta popular or democratic form of government. All the in-habitants of each community met together and decided 136 HOW WE ARE GOVERNED IN TENNESSEE what their laws should be, and who should be their form of local government still prevails in New Eng-land, and in a somewhat different form it has been adoptedin the West. It is known as township government,, and theassembly of the people is called the town meeting. Now it must be very evident to you that, with the peo-ple scattered widely apart as they were in Tennessee and. Gibson County Court House, at Trenton, Tennessee the rest of the Southern States, it would have been impos-sible for such a form of government to have arisen. Howcould the people of a large county come together for thepurpose of making laws ? Instead of the township govern-ment, the county form of government was adopted in Ten-nessee, at it was adopted throughout the South. A countycovered a large area, including many plantations; and the HOW THE COUNTIES ARE GOVERNED 137 people, instead of voting directly, chose representatives todetermine all matters of local interest. Let us see howthe county is at present organized for the purposes of localgovernment. 100. What powers the county may exercise. It is impor-tant for you to bear in mind that the county may do onlythose things which the Constitution and the legislature ofthe State permit. Ordinarily the county attends to suchmatters as the building of roads and bridges, the assess-ment
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