Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities continue to lack meaningful local autonomy. The author examines the need for home rule and its genesis in the United States and Washington. In addition, the author analyzes Washington case law in this area and concludes with constitutional and judicial proposals designed to increase municipal self-governance
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
If the actual adoption of constitutional municipal home rule is the product of the West, there can b...
This article begins by briefly reviewing the recent historical development of home rule. Next, it ex...
Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities c...
Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities c...
One of the most elementary rules of municipal corporations is that the power and control of the legi...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth-century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
I. The Home Rule Concept … A. Cause and Effect … B. Advantages of Home Rule … C. Nebraska’s Constitu...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
This article is part of the special issue: District of Columbia: The State of Controvers
At this point, four years into the new century, most readers must be tired of the invocation of the ...
Home rule can be viewed as a metaphor for the policies of decentralization and diffusion of power. T...
I regret exceedingly that I am not able, in the scope of these observations, to include all the stat...
Home rule can be viewed as a metaphor for the policies of decentralization and diffusion of power. T...
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
If the actual adoption of constitutional municipal home rule is the product of the West, there can b...
This article begins by briefly reviewing the recent historical development of home rule. Next, it ex...
Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities c...
Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities c...
One of the most elementary rules of municipal corporations is that the power and control of the legi...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth-century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
I. The Home Rule Concept … A. Cause and Effect … B. Advantages of Home Rule … C. Nebraska’s Constitu...
This Article focuses on the tension between the late-nineteenth century “Dillon’s Rule” limiting cit...
This article is part of the special issue: District of Columbia: The State of Controvers
At this point, four years into the new century, most readers must be tired of the invocation of the ...
Home rule can be viewed as a metaphor for the policies of decentralization and diffusion of power. T...
I regret exceedingly that I am not able, in the scope of these observations, to include all the stat...
Home rule can be viewed as a metaphor for the policies of decentralization and diffusion of power. T...
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
If the actual adoption of constitutional municipal home rule is the product of the West, there can b...
This article begins by briefly reviewing the recent historical development of home rule. Next, it ex...