Examples of home rule

• Finally, we considered whether home rule improved the situation for urban legislation.

• For those who recalled the 1912-14 home rule crisis, the scene was all too familiar.

• In one extract he had shown his contempt for the political pragmatism espoused by the home rule party.

• The instrument of legislative action, however, became blunter with the adoption of home rule.

• Home rule effectively eliminated state access to the awarding of franchises and to the form of local government, both central issues in turnof-the-centur y politics.

• These patterns of legislative deference to local representatives and of continued state involvement in local issues did not end with home rule.

• Home rule broadened, rather than constricted, the scope of conflict on urban issues.

• Indeed, these home rule resolutions enjoyed the unique distinction of being the only ones unanimously passed at the notoriously fractious conference.