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AbstractThe creation and tetirememnt of local debt in the United States has been considered by our States as a problem for constitutional and legislative treatment. In view of the facts that eleven billion dollars' worth of state and municipal securities are now in the hands of investros and thet this sum is being added to at the rate of form fifty to seventy‐five millions per month, the charactor of these legal restrictions is an intersting subject of investigation

"Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Dec. 28-30, 1904." ; Mode of access: Internet.

State supervision of local government authorities, a requirement of the rule of law, is discussed in relation to municipalities. State supervisory authorities are required to advise and support local government authorities. Supervision at various state levels takes place as legal supervision, which only includes the supervision of legality in matters of the municipality's original competence, and as functional supervision that also supervises expediency in matters transferred by the state. The legality principle (intervention in all cases) is modified by the expediency principle (discretion). A number of remedies are available for implementing both legal and functional supervisory measures. Where municipalities consider that the supervisory measures, whether legal or functional, violate their rights of selfgovernment, they have recourse to the courts.

AbstractState supervision, not accomplished without opposition from "home‐rules," has followed a temperate policy guided by intelligennt under‐standing with gratifying success.