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It is also more convenient for the state to have someone locally take care of local matters. All local governments, whether counties, incorporated towrts and cities, special districts, etc., exist solely at the pleasure of the state. This concept is hundreds of years old and applies throughout the United States. It was mostly bluntly stated in a 1907 court case (Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh):
"The State...at its pleasure may modify or withdraw all powers, may take without compensation property, hold it itself, or vest it in other agencies, expand or contract the territorial
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