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Definition of Commission plan
1. Noun. A municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in the members of a commission.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commission Plan
Literary usage of Commission plan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1911)
"If the chief value and strength of the commission plan consists in directness
and simplicity and the concentration of responsibility and authority on a few ..."
2. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"Conversely, it may be said that they are in no way inconsistent with the commission
plan, and it is probable, will continue to be ..."
3. History and Analysis of the Commission and City Manager Plans of Municipal by Tso-Shuen Chang (1918)
"SPREAD OF THE commission plan OF CITY GOVERNMENT Probably there never has been
a period of greater activity in the re-organization of city government and in ..."
4. ... Selected Articles on the City Manager Plan of Government (1918)
"The commission plan provides five (or three) administrations, ... The commission
plan attempts to put the commission as a whole in command of each member ..."
5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"—Tine advocates of the commission plan for the government of the states propose a
... The movement to extend the commission plan to states made its first ..."
6. City Charter Making in Minnesota by William Anderson (1922)
"commission plan cities in Minnesota. We have now spoken briefly of the electoral
provisions in several of the commission and manager plan cities in the ..."