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Dillon's Rule - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provides for a Strict Construction Approach - State
Supremacy over local government. Municipal Corporations possess those powers
granted by state legislatures in express terms, together with those necessarily
implied by the powers granted, and those indispensable powers essential to the
objectives of the municipal corporation.
The "Cooley Doctrine" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Local Government existed before State
Government. Judge described basic tenets of American political philosophy,
namely t4 things that exist;
1. Inherent right of local government
2. Right to local self government to be absolute right which could not be abridged
3. Many local governments existed before state government
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, 4. Local governments come out of the "fabric" of American life & were the
"cradle" and guardian of American liberty and democracy
Forms of NJ Municipal Government - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Boroughs
2. Commission
3. Municipal Manager
4. Townships
5. Villages
6. Towns
7. Cities
8. Optional Municipal Charter Plans (Faulkner Act)
Types of Optional Municipal Charter Plans - Faulkner Act - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1.
Mayor - Council Plan
2. Council - Manager Plan
3. Small Municipality Plan
4. Mayor-Council-Administrator Plan
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