One of the great questions of our time is how to secure economy and efficiency in city government; and, as our cities are growing with great rapidity, the problem is daily becoming more difficult to solve.
All persons are, or have been, members of a family; some also live under a village or city government; and most children are subject to the government, of some school.
It secures officers to every part of the county, thus affording better means for the punishment of crimes.
It exists for their benefit, that they may be secure in life, liberty, and property.
In our country all power resides in the people, and the township provides a convenient means of ascertaining their wishes and of executing their will.
In Texas it is called the Justice's Precinct, as being the limit of a justice's jurisdiction.
Shall we have better local government under the old-fashioned form of city government, or under some form of commission government?
And further, let us suppose that this imaginary city of Wytown now has a city government with a mayor of limited powers, a small board of aldermen, and a larger city council.
The three types ofcity government in the United States are the mayor-council plan, the commission plan, and the city manager plan.
A number of important advantages are claimed for the commission form of city government.
These instances of New York and Philadelphia sufficiently illustrate the beginnings of city government in the United States.
Give an account of city governmentin the United States, under the following heads:-- 1.
It is time for us now to consider briefly our general system of city government, in its origin and in some of its most important features.
Beside these, there is a company of scouts, called Batidores del campo, containing fewer than the others, but those few of tried sagacity and courage.
Lisondo being slain, the few who escaped the eyes and hands of the savages, saved their lives by flight.
Another subject of complaint to Barreda, was, that, though he commanded them to make the attack in silence, they still would rush on with shouts and senseless clamour.
There are three types or forms of City Government in existence in Virginia: Mayor-Council form, Commission form and City Manager form.
Depending upon the form ofcity government adopted, the mayor may be essentially a figurehead or a key official.
The usual form of city government is modelled upon the State; a mayor corresponds to the governor and a city council of one or two chambers usually elected by wards is parallel to the State Legislature.
The earliest reform movements in the United States were spasmodic uprisings of outraged citizens who were convinced of the corruption of city government.
But in city government, where the work is of a peculiar kind, where it is unified in character and is largely administrative and of a business nature, it has been found impossible to maintain a separation.
It names all appointments to office, and it creates and controls all the departments of city government.
The proper remedy for these evils will be secured only by adopting a form which concentrates the entire authority of city government in one definite and responsible body.
Is that a reason for applying it to city government?
City government should be conducted by a highly paid municipal expert hired for the purpose of controlling city affairs exactly as he would a large business organization.
A speaker pleading for the installation of a commission form of city control might list all the possible ways of city government, a business manager, a mayor, a commission.
For instance, if he is searching for arguments to support a new kind of city government he could discard at once several books cataloged as follows, while he could pick unerringly the four which might furnish him the material he wants.
The ablest and the most hopeful Americans have given it up as a bad job, so far at least as city government is concerned.
It seems but the other day that Mr. Andrew Carnegie flaunted before the eyes of his former countrymen the magnificent achievements of the principle which in city government is already abandoned in despair.
Never mind what is said about this or that system of city government.
But we haven't got to the point where we're letting lunatics who break up city government meetings, or crank doctors, tell us how to spend a million or two of the money we've worked hard to accumulate.
The hearing is before the mayor and the whole city government.
But those who didn't have much power were either kept out or kicked out of any office in city government or the legislature--and those who did amount to something were gobbled up by the machine.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "city government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
