Definition of Commission plan

1. Noun. A municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission.

Generic synonyms: Municipal Government

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commission Plan

commiserators
commish
commissaire
commissar
commissarial
commissariat
commissariats
commissaries
commissars
commissary
commissaryship
commissaryships
commission
commission de bene esse
commission on professional and hospital activities
commission plan (current term)
commissionaire
commissionaires
commissioned
commissioned military officer
commissioned naval officer
commissioned officer
commissioned officers
commissioner
commissioners
commissionership
commissionerships
commissioning
commissionnaire
commissionnaires

Literary usage of Commission plan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1911)
"If the chief value and strength of the commission plan consists in directness and simplicity and the concentration of responsibility and authority on a few ..."

2. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"Conversely, it may be said that they are in no way inconsistent with the commission plan, and it is probable, will continue to be ..."

3. History and Analysis of the Commission and City Manager Plans of Municipal by Tso-Shuen Chang (1918)
"SPREAD OF THE commission plan OF CITY GOVERNMENT Probably there never has been a period of greater activity in the re-organization of city government and in ..."

4. ... Selected Articles on the City Manager Plan of Government (1918)
"The commission plan provides five (or three) administrations, ... The commission plan attempts to put the commission as a whole in command of each member ..."

5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"—Tine advocates of the commission plan for the government of the states propose a ... The movement to extend the commission plan to states made its first ..."

6. City Charter Making in Minnesota by William Anderson (1922)
"commission plan cities in Minnesota. We have now spoken briefly of the electoral provisions in several of the commission and manager plan cities in the ..."

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