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By the local people. State governments can declare a local government to be an incorporated city, for example, but have little to do with its government.
Federalism is the form of government in which local governments must follow the direction of the central government.
There are tons of different local government that can be found. The local governments include city, village, town and county governments.
There is no 'US local government'. There are thousands of local governments contained in the U.S.A?
Local governments get their power from the state government.
unitary government
I'm assuming you mean all the levels of government. If that's the case, there is the Federal Government, state governments, and local government. The specific type of local government varies by state, but covers things like county and city governments.
Property taxes are the main source of funding for local governments.
All local, incorporated, municipalites will have their own town or city government. Those areas not that are unincorporated and not served by municipal governments are administered by their County Governments.
The central, or federal, government has the highest power. It is the highest level of government. Then there's the state government, then the local government.
County
the local government