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  2. Local government - Wikipedia

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    Egypt has a centralised system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive. [5] The country is divided into 27 governorates (محافظة muḥāfaẓah; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [moˈħɑfzˤɑ]; genitive case: muḥāfaẓat [moˈħɑfzˤet]; plural: محافظات muḥāfaẓāt [moħɑfˈzˤɑːt]), [6] the top tier of local ...

  3. Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. [1] It expresses the principle of federalism, whereby the federal government and the individual states share power, by mutual agreement, with the federal government having the supremacy.

  4. Local government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In New England, towns are a principal form of local municipal government, providing many of the functions of counties in other states. In California , by contrast, the pertinent statutes of the Government Code clarify that "town" is simply another word for "city", especially a general law city as distinct from a charter city .

  5. Constitution of Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Article X provides for Alaska's unique borough system. Local government in the territory was undeveloped, due to its sparse population and the Organic Act of 1912 which banned the creation of counties. The delegates wished to avoid the pitfalls of the traditional county system, such as overlapping jurisdictions and service districts, and ...

  6. Local Planning and Development Regulation in North Carolina

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    The effective date was later postponed to July 1, 2021 to give local governments more time, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on government operations. [ 8 ] Regional councils provided support to local governments to help them adjust their local ordinances to conform to the law. [ 9 ]

  7. Constitution of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The constitution established a judicial branch, but did not well define this branch's structure. The constitution also lacked a system of local government. Universal suffrage was not an element of this constitution. Only landowners could vote for Senators until 1857. To hold state office required land ownership until 1868.

  8. Coterminous municipality - Wikipedia

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    A coterminous municipality, [1] [2] sometimes also known as a coterminous city [3] or a coterminous town-village, [4] is a form of local government in some U.S. states in which a municipality and one or more civil townships have partial or complete consolidation of their government functions. A term used for the formation of such a local ...

  9. Constitution of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The 1835 Constitution on display at the Michigan Historical Center on Statehood Day in 2013. On January 26, 1835, Acting Territorial Treaty and Military Officer/ Marshal of the Union Assigned to the Territory of the 1662-1776 State of the Union Stevens T. Mason issued an enabling act authorizing the people of Michigan to form a constitution and state government.