Part 60 (1/2)
Explain.
Difference between a charter and a const.i.tution.
Number of incorporated towns and cities in your county.
Cooperation (or friction) between urban and rural districts in your county.
Organization of village, borough, or town government in your county.
Difference between the ”town” as referred to in the last part of this chapter and the ”town” as described in the first part.
Services in incorporated towns and villages in your county that are not performed by the county or towns.h.i.+p governments for rural residents.
How a village or town is incorporated in your state.
Town manager form of government in your state. Its advantages.
READINGS
State Const.i.tution.
County Government and County Affairs in North Carolina, North Carolina Club Year Book 1917-1918 (The University of North Carolina Record, Extension Series No 30, Chapel Hill, N.C. ).
County Government, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol XLVII, May, 1913. (36th and Woodland Ave, Philadelphia.)
Publications of the New York Short Ballot a.s.sociation, 381 Fourth Ave, New York City.
Fairlie, J.A., Local Government in Counties, Towns, and Villages (The Century Co.).
Mobilizing the Rural Community, by E.L. Morgan, Extension Bulletin No. 23, Ma.s.sachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Ma.s.s.
In LESSONS IN COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL LIFE:
Series B: Lesson 19, The commission form of government and the city manager.
Hart, A.B., Actual Government, Part IV, Local government in action.
Reed, T.H., Form and Functions of American Government, Part iv, Local government.
CHAPTER XXVI
OUR STATE GOVERNMENTS
SOURCE OF GOVERNING POWER
When the thirteen original states were colonies, they derived their governing powers from CHARTERS granted to them by the king, as cities and some counties are granted charters by the state.
When they won their independence the people of each state subst.i.tuted a CONSt.i.tUTION for the charter; the difference between a charter and a const.i.tution being that the former is given TO the people by some higher authority, while the latter is adopted BY the people themselves. All of our states alike, whether created before or after the Union was formed, are self-governing under const.i.tutions of their own making.