Section 1.1 Introduction

• Library: Local Government Deskbook (2017 Ed.)

I. (§1.1) Introduction

Whether identified in the Constitution of Missouri or via enactment of the General Assembly, all sources of local government authority ultimately derive from the people. It is the first premise of the Constitution “[t]hat all political power is vested in and derived from the people; that all government of right originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.” Mo. Const. art. I, § 1. “Under our constitutional...