Municipality

Définition(s)

Source : SANCTON A(1985). Sancton, A. 1985 . Governing Montreal: Language Differences and Metropolitan, Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

An administration that is the provider of services, and they are democratic mechanisms through which territorially based communities of people govern themselves at a local level.

Définitions Wikipedia

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A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term municipality may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French municipalité and Latin municipalis. The English word municipality derives from the Latin social contract municipium (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The territory over which a municipality has jurisdiction may encompass

only one populated place such as a city, a town, or a village
several such places (e.g., early jurisdictions in the U.S. state of New Jersey (1798–1899) as townships governing several villages, Municipalities of Mexico, Municipalities of Colombia)
only parts of such places, sometimes boroughs of a city, such as the 34 municipalities of Santiago, Chile.

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Sources externes

Wikidata : Q15284

DBpedia EN : Municipality

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Having municipalities amalgamate with each other to make them a stronger unit is ineffective because it erodes the foundations of our liberal democracies, undermining the notion that there can be forms of self-government existing outside the institutions of the central government