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Municipalism is the political system of self-government at the local level, such as of a city or town. In essence, it represents a municipality with its own governing authority, functioning as an administrative division of a sovereign state. Municipalism is a political philosophy that extends beyond mere support for municipalities. It champions the primacy of municipalities as a conduit for local political change and, by extension, grassroots movements seeking to influence political processes at higher levels of government. It is an approach to implementing social change that utilises the municipality as the primary vehicle for effecting change.[1][2]
During the French Revolution, sociétés révolutionnaire controlled municipal governments and established alliances between neighboring cities, forming a federation of hundreds of "municipalist republics" in south France known as communalism.[3]
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