Abstract
States have been criticized in recent years for their unwillingness and inability to respond to urban problems. Reformers have directed their scorn to outdated constitutional provisions that restrict local governments from dealing forthrightly with their problems.I In making the state the focal point for new initiatives, they have advocated a litany of changes that states should adopt to solve urban ills.2 These advocates do not get what they want. State constitutional revisions do not lead to major reforms of local structures and organizations, because whatever form they take, they expected to protect an important principle of American federalism: territorial democracy. Within this con-
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