What is the difference between a home-rule city and a city without home-rule power?

Answer 1

In the United Kingdom, it traditionally referred to self-government, devolution or independence of its constituent nations-initially Ireland, and later Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In the United States and other countries organised as federations of states, the term usually refers to the process and mechanisms of self-government as exercised by municipalities, counties, or other units of local government at the level below that of a federal state (e.g., US state, in which context see special legislation). It can also refer to the similar system under which Greenland and the Faroe Islands are associated with Denmark.