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The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

James Bryce

The American Commonwealth · 1888

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City politics America

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1888

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James Bryce

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 51.

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