1 U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), Measuring Local Discretionary Authority (Washington, D.C.: U.S. ACIR, 1981); hereafter, ACIR.
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2Ibid., p. 60.
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324 Iowa 455 (1968).
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4 John F. Dillon, Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations, 5th edition (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1911); hereafter, Municipal Corporations.
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5City of Clinton v. Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad Company; quoted in ACIR, p. 17.
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6 Municipal Corporations; quoted in Murray S. Stedman, Jr., State and Local Governments, 2nd edition (Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop Publishers, Inc.), p. 173.
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8 ACIR, p. 16; the case is People v. Hurlburt, 24 Michigan 44 (1871).
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9Atkins v. Kansas, 191 U.S. 208, 220 (1903).
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10City of Trenton v. New Jersey, 262 U.S. 183 (1923).
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case was Rosen v. Village of Downers Grove, 1 9 Ill. 2nd 248 (1960).
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13 Charles R. Adrian and Charles Press, Governing Urban America, 5th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977), p. 132.
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14Constitution of Alaska, Article X, Section 11.
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15Forwood v. City of Taylor, 147 Tex. 161 at 165;, 214 S.W. 2d. 282 at 286 (1948); cited in ACIR, 60n.
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16 Parris N. Glendening and Mavis Mann Reeves, Pragmatic Federalism: An Intergovernmental View of American Government (Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Palisades Publishers, 1977), p. 229.
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17"Adrian and Press.
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18 Winter, p. 67.
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19Ibid., p. 68.
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20 ACIR, p. 50.
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21 U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, State and Local Roles in the Federal System (Washington, D.C.: U.S. ACIR, 1982), p. 263.
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22 Doyle W. Buckwalter, "Dillon's Rule in the 1980s: Who's in Charge of Local Affairs,"National Civic Review71 (September 1982): p. 406.
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23Community Communications Company, Inc., Petitioner, v. City of Boulder, Colorado, et al. (slip opinion) (Washington, D.C.: Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, 1982), p. 4. Note: hereafter CCC. Citations from the dissent will be referred to as Dissent. Page numbers on CCC and Dissent refer to the slip opinion.
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2415 U.S.C. Section 1.
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25Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341 (1943).
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26 CCC, pp. 6-7.
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27City of Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Company, 435 U.S. 389 (1978).
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28 CCC, p. 9.
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30439 U.S. 196 (1978).
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31CCC, p. 9.
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32 CCC, p. 13.
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34 CCC, p. 14.
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35 CCC, 15n.
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36Dissent, p. 2.
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38 CCC, pp. 10-11.
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39 CCC, p. 11.
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40Dissent, 6n.
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41Dissent, p. 12.
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42 Tom Madden, "A Legal Opinion,"Intergovernmental Perspective (Spring 1982), p. 33.
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"43Private communication, Robert Harpster, Executive Director, League of Iowa Municipalities, Des Moines, Iowa, September 1, 1982.
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44 Debra J. Collins (ed.), "News in Review: Va. Cable Law Gives Cities' (sic) OK,"National Civic Review71 (June 1982): pp. 311-312.