OK, now this is interesting to me this morning....
I was perusing here this morning, reading a thread on foreign citizens entering Syria form Lebanon, and thought i remembered (correctly) that Lebanon is a Democratic Nation. I followed some wikipedia links, and found THIS:
Dillon's Rule--(an excerpt from the wiki article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon%27s_Rule#Dillon.27s_Rule
The Supreme Court of the United States cited Municipal Corporations and fully adopted Dillon's emphasis on state power over municipalities in Merrill v. Monticello, 138 U.S. 673 (1891), reaff'd. Hunter v. Pittsburgh, 207 U.S. 161 (1907), which upheld the power of Pennsylvania to consolidate the city of Allegheny into the city of Pittsburgh, despite the wishes of the majority of Allegheny residents. The Court's ruling that...
...states could alter or abolish at will the charters of municipal corporations without infringing upon contract rights heavily relied upon Dillon's separation of public, municipal corporations from private ones.
I want a lawyer around here to tell me what is the difference between a public and private corporation, regarding the State's ability to abolish corporate charters. Just Contract Rights?
Anyone?
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