Indeed, governments are established to ensure control of power and to impose a specific ideal on the governed. The United States is revolutionary in the sense that a democratic system of government has been set as the standard for governing the people. The federal system is an all-encompassing, yet broad, set of governance that is based on the balance between centralized and distributed power. The state government serves as an effective means to better respond to the needs of its citizens, however, it fails to timely consider the situation related to their daily problems, due to the complexity of governing a state. For this reason, further subdivisions of power are created in Home Rule cities and towns that alleviate the dependence that general law cities have on their county, and therefore also on the state. Under Dillon's Law, a unit of local government can exercise only the powers granted to it by the state. A general law city therefore defers exclusively to the state legislature as provided by the state constitution. The intrinsic constraint that accompanies a general l...