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Fort Ethan Allen: Who was Ethan Allen? (637 words) |
 | Ethan Allen is the historical leader of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys and has been enshrined in Vermont folklore as a hero. |
| Allen was captured by the British on September 25, 1775, and sent to England. |
| Ethan Allen is presumably Vermont's most well known military hero. |
| An Ethan Allen Institute Commentary (758 words) |
| If legislators voted contrary to the expressed wishes of the voters of their districts, they would have to go home and explain why their position was preferable to that of the majority of the voters in their district. |
| They are, of course, afraid of the terrors of democracy: that the people would vote down the statewide property tax rate increase that is almost certain to be necessary to keep Act 60 from collapsing. |
| And their representatives, constitutionally accountable to the people who elected them, must have the courage to hold accountable the bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges who are determined to impose their own ideas of how Vermonters shall live their lives. |
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