单词 | local government |
释义 | > as lemmaslocal government local government n. administration of a town or other comparatively small district by elected representatives of the people who live there, as distinguished from central government; the governing body responsible for this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > local government local government1753 1753 Gen. Shop Bk. Corporations, a Corporation is properly an investing the people of the place, with the local government thereof, and therefore their law shall bind strangers. 1787 A. Hamilton in Amer. Museum June 447/1 The causes taken notice of, as securing the attachment of the people to their local governments, present us with another important truth—the natural imbecility of federal governments. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vi. 279 The local government was involved in a discussion with the Supreme Court at the Presidency. 1880 E. Robertson in Encycl. Brit. XI. 21 Local government repeats on a small scale the features of the supreme government, but its business is chiefly judicial and administrative. 1901 J. A. Fairlie Munic. Administr. 69 An important change..was made by the Local Government Act of 1894... The urban local boards are called Urban District Councils, and the term of office of the councillors is fixed at three years. 1988 H. T. Jensen in J. Regulski Decentralization & Local Govt. iii. 49 If the control by the central government is too tight, then the local governments rebel by not, or by just barely, abiding by the central demands. 2005 Yachting Dec. 40/2 Cruisers wonder how local government can usurp ‘navigable waterways’, which are under federal control. < as lemmas |
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