Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins

ect and Indire

s; township government is direc

d in a county by the extent of territory

ount of the Boston

towns and cities in A

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n of English Bor

esters and caste

towns into fo

a hundred; it a

a county; it ac

of London u

e town guild,

d in the thirteenth century; may

on, and the metr

for a long time th

ontfort an

English cities, beginni

pal Reform

city of New York b

fter the

Philadelphia in the

good government was

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rnment of Cities in

s of our munici

they do not se

th of Amer

ences of thi

sulting from wa

lexity of gove

st of municipal o

o the citizens, in some respects harder to

in many cases led to scattering

for executive purpose

fi

y debts, and various att

ate interference in municipal

d Ring i

is a period

vernment o

ating municipal fr

ght to be restricted; evils

hy speculators; testim

pal Co

a restric

ixing city politics

estroyed, root and branch; ba

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QUESTIONS A

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