Commissioners v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ It is claimed on the part of counsel for respondent that the universal custom since 1802, when the town of Detroit was incorporated, has been to submit every item of expenditure to a meeting of citizens for discussion and approval, and that that custom has been preserved through different bodies, who have taken the place of the citizens’ meeting; that therefore it is the design of the statute still to require every item of expenditure to be passed upon by some authority which represents the citizens’ meeting of the-early days of the municipality. It is true that this check upon the expenditure of money has been preserved in the legislation concerning the city of Detroit. It is doubtless, however, competent for the legislature to provide that certain expenditures may be made upon approval of the common council, and it is competent also for them to abolish entirely the board of estimates, which has come now to represent the citizens’ meeting.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Township of Grosse Pointe v. Finn