Home Rule Reform
New Principles of Home Rule - National League of Cities
Home rule is a longstanding legal principle ... Home rule is a longstanding legal ... reform of home rule, sparking a wave of ...
Home Rule Reform - Local Solutions Support Center
That's why LSSC is committed to advancing home rule reform. LSSC worked with the National League of Cities in 2020 to draft a new framework, Principles of Home ...
In 1953, the American Municipal Association (AMA)—which became the National League of Cities (NLC) in 1964—published the last comprehensive proposed reform of ...
Resources About Home Rule - Local Solutions Support Center
Home rule reform, like abusive preemption, can be difficult to explain – even if you're doing this work day-in and day-out. That's why our national table is ...
The Big Idea: Re-Envisioning Home Rule for the 21st Century
The vision for home rule the team developed really turns on four key concepts. The first idea is that the 1953 reform mostly got it right, when ...
Will Courts Continue to Favor State Control Over Home Rule?
These state laws, which severely constrain local authority and undermine local democracy, have brought home rule reform back to national ...
Is Home Rule The Answer? Clarifying The Influence Of Dillon's Rule ...
Conversely, legislatures in home rule states can pass laws that restrict municipalities from engaging in exclusionary practices or other activities that appear ...
Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia
In some states, known as home rule states, the state's constitution grants municipalities and/or counties the ability to pass various types of laws to govern ...
Dillon Rule and Home Rule: Principles of Local Governance
The founding document of the United States, the Constitution, is silent on local governments. Instead, the Ninth and Tenth. Amendments reserve all other ...
Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century
The extent to which the provisions below should apply to the entire range of general- purpose local governments is a design choice left to states reforming ...
Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century - Scholarship Archive
As the nature of urban development and the role of local government changes, home rule must change with it. Home rule is a complex topic. Home rule takes many ...
The Failure of Home Rule Reform in Virginia: Race, Localism, and...
The Failure of Home Rule Reform in Virginia: Race, Localism, and the Constitution of 1971 ... Virginia remains one of a minority of states that does not ...
Home Rule | Center for the Study of Federalism
The home rule movement, associated with Progressive reform in American government, originated in the later half of the nineteenth century as a response to ...
"Home Rule and Local Political Innovation" by Richard Briffault
This paper examines local political innovations, their reception in state courts and the implications for home rule and political reform more generally. It ...
State attacks on Home Rule must be recognized as attacks on democracy, and efforts to reform Home Rule must address that reality. I.
Defining Home Rule for a Digital, Mobile and Global Era.
Moving forward, the question for municipalities is how to reform Connecticut law, policy and/or practice to permit more flexibility or latitude ...
Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule - Harvard Kennedy School
24 These grants of the power to amend a charter locally are designed to free localities from seeking out state legislative permission for changes in municipal ...
Home Rule - Encyclopedia of Alabama
In Alabama, the grant of power is contained in the Constitution or is delegated by the Alabama State Legislature by law. The term "local governments" includes ...
D.C. Home Rule • Council of the District of Columbia
The Home Rule Act is the result of the ongoing push by District residents for control of their own local affairs. The existing local government is the most ...
Home Rule - Encyclopedia of Chicago
Finally, in 1970 Illinois adopted a new constitution which designated any municipality with a population greater than 25,000 as a home rule unit, securing for ...