...remain upon the eligible list." (§ 87.) sSection 7Vi provides in pertinent part that: "Any county may frame a charter for its own government consistent with and subject to the Constitution . . . and relating to matters authorized by provisions of the Constitution ... [I]f approved by the majority...

...differing somewhat from the Missouri experiment. It empowered a city having a population of over 100,000 to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the laws of the State. The charter was first voted upon by the people, and if adopted, was submitted to...

...definite and specific. So far as applicable to this proceeding, it provides as follows: "Any county may frame a charter for its own government consistent with and subject to the Constitution . . . and relating to matters authorized by provisions of the Constitution. ... If a majority of said qualified...

...municipality "containing a population of more than throe thousand five hundred inhabitants . . . may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to this constitution." This restriction applies to and qualifies every power conferred upon the chartered...

...laws. Any city containing a population of twenty thousand inhabitants, or more, shall be permitted to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to tht constitution and laws of this state, and for such purpose the legislative authority of such city...

...taken under the authority of the Congress of the United States or of the Legislature of California, may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to this Constitution ; and any city or city and county having adopted a charter may adopt a new one. Any...

...except as such i>ower is restricted by the Constitution. The Constitution provides that a city may frame a charter for its own government, "consistent with and subject to the laws of this state," and further provides that such charter "shall always be in harmony with and subject...

...amended, provides: "A city, or consolidated city and county, containing a population of, etc., may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the laws of this state, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have been, for at least five...

...drafters of the constitution added a provision that gives any city with 3,500 or more people the right to "frame a charter for its own government consistent with, and subject to. the Constitution and the laws of the State." 5 The framers established municipal home rule by an express and self-executing...

...giving to any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants authority to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the constitution and laws of the state, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders to be selected to prepare and propose a charter,...