Zincwarrior
Diamond Member
OH, ok I get you now. I believe under current stare decisis, counties are not viewed as separate entities from the larger state.
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In a unanimous decision in the 1907 U.S. Supreme Court case "Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh," Justice William Moody wrote, "Municipal corporations are political subdivisions of the State, created by it and at all times wholly under its legislative control."

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