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Council Government Versus Mayor Government (1900) (Paperback)
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Council Government Versus Mayor Government (1900) (Paperback)
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COUNCIL GOVERNMENT VERSUS MAYOR GOVERNMENT. II. WE pass now to a
more theoretical discussion of the relations between the
legislative and the executive authorities in municipal
organization. While the advocates of an increase in the power of
the mayor sometimes fail to present careful theoretical arguments
in favor of their position, it seems possible to discover at the
basis of their reasoning two general lines of thought, which,
though often not sharply distinguished, are widely different and
are even inconsistent with each other. The first is that based on
the idea of the separation of powers. It holds that in municipal
government, as in higher grades, we should aim to mark off, as
distinctly as possible, the legislative from the executive sphere.
The earlier system, which gave to the council the undivided
authority, sinned against this principle; and the present movement
toward increasing the mayor's power seeks only to secure to the
executive its proper coordinate position. The second line of
thought is that based on the idea of the centralization of all
power and responsibility. This idea may best be realized by making
one man, the mayor, the dominant authority, relegating the council
to a narrow sphere or abolishing it altogether. The present section
will be devoted to a discussion of the first line of argument. The
Considerations which are advanced in favor of the separation of
powers in municipal government may be grouped under three heads:
(i) that thereby needed checks and balances are introduced; (2)
that thus a natural and advantageous division of labor is
established; (3) that this separation is necessary to prevent
politics from interfering as to the personnel of the executive
department. I. It is to be observed, in the first place, that,
while the argu...
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