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Definition of Local government
1. Noun. The government of a local area.
Specialized synonyms: Municipal Government, Town Meeting
Definition of Local government
1. Noun. Any form of government whose remit covers an area less than that of the nation and, in some cases, less than that of a state. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Government
Literary usage of Local government
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to American Government by Frederic Austin Ogg, Perley Orman Ray (1922)
"PART V. local government AND ADMINISTRATION CHAPTER XLIII THE COUNTY AND ITS
GOVERNMENT As has been apparent throughout the preceding group of chap- ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"To present completely local government as it existe in the United State« would
require a volume. Every one of the thirty-eight states has a code of ¡te own ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"At flrst local government in this state was organized under the county ...
(1889), 144-147, 151, 152; Albert Shaw, local government in Illinois (1883). ..."
4. The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1920)
"CHAPTER XIII local government Stages of Development. — An important — in some
respects the most important — part of any system of government is the agencies ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"local government in England. By Josef Redlich and Francis W. Hirst. ... English Local
Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. The ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The result was a system of legislative rather than executive centralization, with
the control over both central and local government in the hands of the ..."
7. The Government of the United States: National, State, and Local by William Bennett Munro (1919)
"Yet with all this widening of central supervision over local government, the
counties, towns, and townships of the United States have on the whole a larger ..."
8. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"Ireland its local government Acts, 34 & 35 Viet. c. ... The working of these is
supervised by local government Boards for Scotland and Ireland. ..."
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