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Which Jefferson county? There are SEVERAL throughout the US..
The people built a government so they could follow it in the middle age not new age. It had a very strict branch that only changed later on.
County commissioners are elected by the people and serve prescribed terms. They are the executive body on a county level. They are responsible for the administrative decisions, and are the ones who decide which county issues will be placed on the ballot.
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Cheyenne, Wyoming is the capital of the US state of Wyoming, so Cheyenne has a state government and a city government. Cheyenne is also the county seat of Laramie County, Wyoming, so it has a county government. Cheyenne, Wyoming has a Democratic type of government, meaning the people have a say in the decisions which affect their lives.
They shared ideas of philosophy, government, religion, and the arts.
They shared ideas of philosophy, government, religion, and the arts.
The Poll Tax was usually a county tax, so the money went to the county for county government. US counties get most of their money by taxing all the land in the county. Poor blacks, who owned no land, thus paid little for county government. Many were sharecroppers, and the landowner they rented from was liable for the taxes on the land they farmed. The rich large landowners were politically powerful, and the poll tax was a way of shifting some of the burden of paying for county government from them onto their poor tenants, with the additional benefit of keeping any poor people who did not pay the tax from voting.
Many people earn their living in oilfield related jobs. Others work in government and service industries.