Excerpt from Builders of the Republic: Some Great Americans Who Have Aided in the Making of the Nation
The growth of great cities has been among the most significant and least fortunate changes in the character of the population of the United States during the century and more that has passed since 1787. The ratio of persons living in cities exceeding 8,000 inhabitants to the total population was, in 1790, 3.35 per cent., in 1840, 8.52, in 1880, 22.57, and in 1890, 29.12. And this change has gone on with accelerated speed notwithstanding the enormous, extension of settlement over the vast regions of the West. Needless to say that a still larger and increasing proportion of the wealth of the country is gathered into the larger cities. Their government is therefore a matter of high concern to America.
We find in all the larger cities: -
A mayor, head of the executive, and elected directly by the voters within the city.
Certain executive officers or boards, some directly elected by the city voters, others nominated by the mayor or chosen by the city legislature.
A legislature consisting usually of two, but some times of one chamber, directly elected by the city voters.
Judges, usually elected by the city voters, but sometimes appointed by the State.
What is this but the frame of a State government applied to the smaller area of a city?
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