Home rule in the United States
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title:
Home rule in the United States
text:
Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action. Forty of the 50 states apply some form of the principle known as Dillon's Rule, which says that local governments may exercise only powers that the state specifically grants to them, to determine the bounds of
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Form of local government autonomy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_States
date created:
2010-09-07T05:30:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T22:34:21Z
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