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CHAPTER IX

Changes in the State Constitutions After 1787

• Development of the judicial veto 230
• Limitation of the power to impeach 231
• Extension of the term of office of governor and members of the legislature 232
• Amendment of the constitution made more difficult 235
• Influence of democracy upon the state constitutions 239
• Division of authority in the state government 243
• Lack of effective responsibility 245

CHAPTER X

Municipal Government

• Municipal government at the time of the Revolution 249
• Changes in municipal government after the adoption of the Constitution 250
• The municipality a creature of the state legislature 252
• Hostility of the courts to municipal self-government 254
• The attitude of the courts made state interference necessary 255
• Abuses of legislative interference 256
• Constitutional provisions limiting the power of the legislature to interfere 261
• Effort to establish municipal self-government 265
• Limitation of the power of the majority in constitutions granting municipal self-government 266
• The object of home rule provisions largely defeated by judicial interpretation 268
• Limitation of the taxing and borrowing power of home rule cities 272
• Origin of the constitutional limitations of municipal indebtednes 273
• Fear of municipal democracy 277
• Municipal ownership as a means of taxing the propertyless class 280
• Why our state governments have not been favorable to municipal democracy 285
• Limitation of the power of the majority the main cause of municipal corruption 288

CHAPTER XI

Individual Liberty and the Constitution

• The eighteenth-century conception of liberty negative 291
• Influence of the Revolution upon the conception of liberty