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  2. Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.

  3. Arlington County v. White - Wikipedia

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    The Dillon rule stated that local governments only had the powers expressly conferred upon them by statute and those necessarily implied; these powers were furthermore to be strictly interpreted. Judge Benjamin N. A. Kendrick agreed with the taxpayers that the County's benefit plan violated the Dillon rule and granted the plaintiffs' motion for ...

  4. Municipal annexation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dillon's Rule implies, among other things, that the boundaries of any jurisdiction falling under state government can be modified by state government action. For this reason, examples of municipal annexation are distinct from annexations involving sovereign states .

  5. Local government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This legal doctrine, called Dillon's Rule, was established by Judge John Forrest Dillon in 1872 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hunter v. Pittsburgh, 207 U.S. 161 (1907), which upheld the power of Pennsylvania to consolidate the city of Allegheny into the city of Pittsburgh, despite the wishes of the majority of Allegheny residents.

  6. The Rules of Sociological Method - Wikipedia

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    Durkheim distinguishes sociology from other sciences and justifies his rationale. [1] Sociology is the science of social facts. Durkheim suggests two central theses, without which sociology would not be a science: It must have a specific object of study. Unlike philosophy or psychology, sociology's proper object of study are social facts.

  7. John Forrest Dillon - Wikipedia

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    In 1853, Dillon married Anna Margery Price (born June 19, 1835). They had two sons and a daughter. Anna and their daughter, Mrs. Annie Dillon Oliver, died in the sinking of the French ocean liner La Bourgogne in July 1898. Dillon's oldest son, Hiram Price Dillon (1855–1918), became a lawyer in Iowa and a Master of Chancery in federal court.

  8. Local government in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Municipalities are governed under Dillon's rule, unless they elect to be governed by home rule. [5] Currently, there are 10 home rule municipalities in New Mexico ( Alamogordo , Albuquerque , Clovis , Gallup , Grants , Hobbs , Las Cruces , Los Alamos , Rio Rancho , and Santa Fe ), as well as two chartered cities ( Las Vegas and Silver City ).

  9. Social rule system theory - Wikipedia

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    Social rule system theory is an attempt to formally approach different kinds of social rule systems in a unified manner. Social rules systems include institutions such as norms , laws , regulations, taboos , customs , and a variety of related concepts and are important in the social sciences and humanities .