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Keyword: «congregation»

The article examines very peculiar socio-political relations related to local self-government. As the example of separated region of the Eurasian continent – the Russian North of the pre-Petrine era. The author thought that the true democracy of our civilization can be seen in a single hierarchical system of representative authority of regional self-government, which existed in those time, and which was the basis of power in traditional society.