DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

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In most modern countries, local affairs are known to be governed both through the organs of State administration, which act as a peripheral link of the State apparatus, and through representative organs.Actually, they implement the right to exercise local selfgovernment, envisaged by the constitutions of the developed democratic countries.Self-government bodies emerged in Europe in the times of developed feudalism as a direct counterweight to the absolute power of the center.Initially, these bodies were formed based on limited suffrage by wealthy citizens of the society, in whose interests serious voting qualification barriers (literacy, settled way of life and property) were set for ordinary citizens in the Middle Ages.As a result of the victory of the bourgeois revolutions, election of self-government officials in Europe, and then in the United States, was made more democratic, and self-governing bodies turned into close to the population structures that were in charge of activities of citizens.When it comes to the national experience of the development of local self-government, it should be indicated that it began to take shape when the Ukrainian lands fell under the authority of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where Magdeburg rights acquired legal force.It was when the legal basis for emerging of this phenomenon was created by the charters of medieval towns, and this became a certain way of making municipal form of self-government "legal", which eventually was embodied in Magdeburg rights.Unfortunately, the development of the national law of local self-government was suspended later on, and under new historical conditions, the 1 Калашников В.М.Хмельников А.О.Принципи місцевого самоврядування: європейські стандарти та національне законодавство // Держава і права.

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