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Local Government

September 13, 1883 issue

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The article discusses two books. "Local Government," by M.D. Chalmers, suggests that probably there is not in the world a more extraordinary piece of political patchwork than the local government of England. That local self-government is possible at all under such a system is probably owing to the existence of a limited suffrage based upon property. "The American Citizen's Manual," part 1, "Governments, The Electorate, The Civil Service"; and part 2, "Functions at Governments," edited by Worthington C. Ford, includes the national as well as local governments, and has a strong flavor of an American tendency to state facts less as they are than as they are assumed and perhaps ought to be.

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