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The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter reform campaign is a campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to rewrite the city's 1951 Home Rule Charter. The campaign began in response to several local political scandals, the most recent being City Council members' participation in DROP, a Deferred Retirement Option Plan originally intended for civil service.

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Philadelphia Home Rule Charter reform campaign

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Philadelphia Home Rule Charter reform campaign is a campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to rewrite the city's 1951 Home Rule Charter. The campaign...

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Philadelphia

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Retrieved April 18, 2009. Charter Commission (1967) [1951]. "Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, Annotated" (PDF). City of Philadelphia. Archived from the original...

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1951 Philadelphia municipal election

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The 1951 Philadelphia municipal election, held on Tuesday, November 6, was the first election under the city's new charter, which had been approved by...

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District of Columbia home rule

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District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital, the Constitution...

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2007 Philadelphia mayoral election

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election had the lowest turnout in a Philadelphia mayoral election without an incumbent since the Home Rule Charter of 1951. In the general election, the...

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Joe Biden

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accept contributions in exchange for political favors, he proposed campaign finance reform measures during his first term. As of November 2009[update], Biden's...

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History of Philadelphia

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and contented." Various reform efforts slowly changed city government with the most significant in 1950 where a new city charter strengthened the position...

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Magna Carta

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Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to...

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2015 Philadelphia mayoral election

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limits in the city's home rule charter. Registered Democrats hold a formidable 7-to-1 ratio over registered Republicans in Philadelphia, giving Democratic...

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Fernando Wood

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appointments and his advocacy for unilateral reform of the city charter to strengthen his power and grant the city home rule brought him into direct conflict with...

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Leon Abbett

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Senate seat in 1877. Abbett kept his campaign pledge by obtaining passage of a reform municipal charter restoring home rule and gained further support from...

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City status in Ireland

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is one reference in James I's 1609 charter for Wexford to "our said city of Wexford", but the rest of the charter describes it as a town or borough. The...

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Local government in the United States

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chartered and general-law local governments, the chartered local governments have more local autonomy and home rule. Municipalities are typically subordinate...

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David Sirota

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Little League Baseball team. Sirota attended the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where he was close friends with Adam F. Goldberg, who went...

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Katherine Gilmore Richardson

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February 2023, Gilmore Richardson passed legislation amending The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to change the requirements for contributions of the Budget Stabilization...

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Thirteen Colonies

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but it was disbanded in 1782 when the Home Office took responsibility. Province of Massachusetts Bay, chartered as a royal colony in 1691 Popham Colony...

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Randi Weingarten

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a Philadelphia School Reform Commission meeting on school closures. Neighborhood public schools, according to Weingarten, can coexist with charter schools—but...

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Pennsylvania

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the only town in the state. In 1975, McCandless Township adopted a home-rule charter under the name of "Town of McCandless", but is, legally, still a first-class...

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Philadelphia Eagles

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Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The franchise was established...

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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an international collection of autonomous community-based organizations that advocates...

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Jill Stein

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presidential election. Her campaigns for president have focused heavily on the proposal of a Green New Deal, which includes a number of reforms intended to address...

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Aaron Burr

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a valued servant in the home of Elizabeth Powel Francis Fisher, a prominent Philadelphia society matron, and later in the home of her son Joshua Francis...

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George Soros

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Attorney of Philadelphia with the help of a $1.5 million ad campaign funded by Soros in 2017. Soros was the largest donor supporting the campaign of George...

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Hamas

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Muslims in perpetuity by God, with religious coexistence under Islam's rule. The charter rejects a two-state solution, stating that the conflict cannot be...

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Rule of law

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the rule of law was not "the predominant consideration" of the Athenian legal system. Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon king in the 9th century, reformed the...

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Zimbabwe

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concession to persuade the government of the United Kingdom to grant a royal charter to the company over Matabeleland, and its subject states such as Mashonaland...

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