Local Government

Most Americans live in and experience local government in

• cities or urban areas

• rural area

• towns

• villages

Another word for city  is

• charter

• municipality

• hamlet

• ordinance

A document that gives power to a local government is

• a home rule

• a ballot

• a city charter

• an ordinance

In the mayor council form of government, the council acts as the city's

• chief executive

• electorate

• governor

• legislature

In the strong commission form of county government, the county board acts as the 

• executive authority and legislature

• executive authority

• executive and judicial authority, as well as the legislature

• legislature

A county's chief law enforcement officer is the

• county prosecutor

• district attorney

• police department

• sheriff

The taxes placed on taxable properties within a county are based on the estimates of the county's

• assessor

• attorney

• clerk

• treasurer

The county's _________ investigates deaths due to injury, violence, or unknown causes.

• assessor

• coroner

• treasurer

• clerk

Town and township governments receive their power from

• the federal government

• the president

• the state

• villages

Town meetings are

• a form of representative democracy

• held throughout most of the United States

• no longer held today

• still held today