Date Study Completed
5/2017
Name of Submitting League
LWV of
the Fairfax Area (Virginia)
Title of Study
Dillon’s Rule in
2017 How Much Does it Matter?
Summary of Study
The history of
municipal or town rule, beginning with London, stretches back to the 11th
century in England. In 1868 Justice John
F. Dillon of the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the case of City of Clinton v.
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company that municipal governments are
the creation of the state and, therefore, have no inherent rights but are
limited to exercising only the powers states grant to them.
League or Contact Email Address
Julie
Jones: program@lwv-fairfax.org
URL(s) of study, position or related documents
Fairfax+VOTER_May.pdf lwvfa-dillon+rule-article+Oct+2004+LWVFA+Voter.pdf
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