A very different form of community emerges in New England, one that is also distinctly American. Here the primary social unit is not the isolated farm, but the town-a tightly knit community of people bound together by their town covenant. In order to sustain their particularly demanding culture, Puritans develop the tradition of holding town meetings where they elect their own officers and choose their own bylaws. In relative terms, it is a democratic system that reflects the economic egalitarianism of early New England.

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New England towns, town covenant, obligation to community, lack of privacy, self-governing, town meeting, selectmen, democratic system, economic egalitarianism, Colonial America

American History, American Studies, U.S. Colonial History, Unfinished Nation, The

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