The town meeting form of government, it is often said, is the “purest form of democracy,” and while SB 2 separated town and school meetings from ballot voting two decades ago, that notion remains fundamentally true.

Thus, except for personnel decisions, selectmen mostly administer what their constituents instruct them to do at the polls. They make few public policy decisions, and very, very rarely do they go against public sentiment.

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