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The Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, Act 62 of 1972, provided all local governments in Pennsylvania a unique opportunity of true " home rule.
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Home and Rule
* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
The Irish Home Rule vote in England contributed to his party's defeat.
The party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule, but returned to power in 1906 through a landslide victory.
In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.
Gladstone personally supported Home Rule, but a strong Liberal Unionist faction led by Joseph Chamberlain, along with the last of the Whigs, Hartington, opposed it.
The Irish Home Rule bill gave all owners of Irish land a chance to sell to the state at a price equal to 20 years ' purchase of the rents and allowing tenants to purchase the land.
There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.
As a result Asquith was forced to introduce a new third Home Rule bill in 1912.
In their resistance to Home Rule the Ulster Protestants had the full support of the Conservatives, whose leader, Andrew Bonar Law, was of Ulster-Scots descent.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland were dominated by Irish nationalists ' pursuit of Home Rule ( or even independence ) from the United Kingdom.
Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.
Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.
As the implementation of Home Rule continued to be postponed due to the ongoing war, and the British threatened to impose conscription in Ireland to aid the war effort, nationalist support rapidly came to be channeled into the revolutionary Sinn Féin movement.
Starting work on its next Home Rule Act, it had to plan for a growing loss of morale in the RIC with an interim solution until the Act was ready.
The Cook Islands has " Home Rule " with respect to banking, similar to Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.
This " Home Rule " banking confuses New Zealanders on vacation in the Cooks.
* 1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D. C. to elect their own local government.
Opposition took various forms: constitutional ( the Repeal Association ; the Home Rule League ), social ( disestablishment of the Church of Ireland ; the Land League ) and revolutionary ( Rebellion of 1848 ; Fenian Rising ).
Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.
The First Home Rule Bill of 1886 was defeated in the House of Commons, while the Second Home Rule Bill of 1893 was passed by the Commons but rejected by the House of Lords.
The Third Home Rule Bill was introduced by British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in 1912.
The linking of conscription and Home Rule outraged the Irish nationalist parties at Westminster, ( including the IPP, AFIL and others ) who walked out in protest and returned to Ireland to organise opposition.
Home and Charter
Dorchester County operates under the Charter Home Rule form of government and the affairs of the County are managed by five County Council Members, one from each of the five Council districts defined within the County.
The Washington Parish Government is a Home Rule Charter or “ President-Council ” form of Government.
Livingston Parish is a Council-President parish governed by a Home Rule Charter and enforced by a Parish Council and Parish President.
The City Charter, in accordance with the State Constitution, provides the City with authority for " Home Rule " whereby the City is given the power to make and enforce within its own boundaries any law, which does not conflict with the State or Federal Government.
* Burton Charter Home School
It has four high schools: Marysville High, Lindhurst High School, Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts, and Abraham Lincoln Home School.
An election to determine if Norton Township should be incorporated into a Home Rule City passed by a two to one margin and nine charter commissioners were elected to draw up the first City Charter which was adopted on April 16, 1968.
The City of Blue Springs has a Mayor-Council-Administrator form of government as set forth in the Home Rule City Charter.
Blackwell is a Home Rule Charter City, which is governed by Council-City Manager form of government.
On May 21, 1974, the electorate approved a Home Rule Charter, which took effect on January 1, 1975 ; as such, the community is no longer governed under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Township Code.
Monroeville became a Home Rule Charter Municipality on May 21, 1974 .< ref name =" municipality ">
Richland Township is a 2nd Class Township and governs with a Home Rule Charter.
Chester is a Third Class City, and was approved by the citizens on April 20, 1980 as a Home Rule Charter Community.
Originally established in 1686, Middletown Township adopted a Home Rule Charter in 1978.
On November 5, 1974, the township adopted a Home Rule Charter ( here ) form of government that became effective January 5, 1976.
On November 17, 1972, the electors voted in favor of a commission and selected nine members with the task of studying present Township government and the alternative of an Optional Plan of Government or a Home Rule Charter.
On March 13, 1974, the final report of the Government Study Commission recommended a Home Rule Charter, which was approved on May 21, 1974 by a vote of 1, 375 to 546.
Now, the official name is Municipality of Norristown, operating under a Home Rule Charter with that designation since 1986.
Norristown has been a home rule municipality since 1986 when a Home Rule Charter with a manager / council form of government and a seven-member municipal council went into effect.
Plymouth Township adopted a Home Rule Charter in 1972.
Government under a Home Rule Charter allows a municipality to take any governmental or administrative actions it requires, unless such actions are prohibited by general laws of the Commonwealth.
In 1976, the Township ’ s Home Rule Charter became effective.
Prudence Island School ( a Charter / Co-op " Home School " as of September 2009 )
In May 2007 Richmond voters approved a referendum to create a Home Rule Charter Commission.
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