Add to ORKGA persistent theme in the literature on state-local relations has been the plenary power of state governments and the legal powerlessness of local governments. The black letter rules of state-local relations are that the state governments enjoy complete hegemony over their political subdivisions, that local governments are mere creatures of the states, with only those powers that the states delegate to them, and there is no such thing as an inherent right of local self-government
In recent years, state legislatures have increasingly passed laws that prohibit or preempt local act...
Unlike the federal legislature, state legislatures possess plenary power, except insofar as they are...
The dominant theme in the resurgent state constitutional jurisprudence of the last quarter-century h...
A central theme in the literature of local government law is that local governments are powerless, i...
Two themes dominate thejurisprudence of American local government law: the descriptive assertion tha...
There is no reason to suppose that local variations in this field are significantly different from t...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
In discussions about American federalism, it is common to speak of a state government as if it wer...
This Article explains and defends the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21s...
Direct relations between the federal government and local governments - what this article calls coo...
Like its predecessors, the 9th Edition focuses on the critical roles played by states and local gove...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addre...
Contemporary debates about federalism and localism often proceed with, at best, a glancing reference...
Professor Cooley offers the readers of the Commentaries a brief statement regarding laws of the Unit...
In recent years, state legislatures have increasingly passed laws that prohibit or preempt local act...
Unlike the federal legislature, state legislatures possess plenary power, except insofar as they are...
The dominant theme in the resurgent state constitutional jurisprudence of the last quarter-century h...
A central theme in the literature of local government law is that local governments are powerless, i...
Two themes dominate thejurisprudence of American local government law: the descriptive assertion tha...
There is no reason to suppose that local variations in this field are significantly different from t...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
In discussions about American federalism, it is common to speak of a state government as if it wer...
This Article explains and defends the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21s...
Direct relations between the federal government and local governments - what this article calls coo...
Like its predecessors, the 9th Edition focuses on the critical roles played by states and local gove...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addre...
Contemporary debates about federalism and localism often proceed with, at best, a glancing reference...
Professor Cooley offers the readers of the Commentaries a brief statement regarding laws of the Unit...
In recent years, state legislatures have increasingly passed laws that prohibit or preempt local act...
Unlike the federal legislature, state legislatures possess plenary power, except insofar as they are...
The dominant theme in the resurgent state constitutional jurisprudence of the last quarter-century h...